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Show 'Shall DESERET NEWS ERMA BOMBECK all agree that there's no hurry?' we SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 6 3'nJ Fc' Trt Ccrsr itr .or, C; Ire s UA Hymirg Been D'V"e' EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, Ph. D. Housewives ed Sict Ur, Inspired NOVEMBER 18, 1969 speak Endian Commitment: aisles, pc. haps the mast comprehensive examination ever of how vwil American Indians are educated. The Senate Subcommittee on Indian Education concludes ' Our national policies for educating American Indians are a failure of major proportions. They have not offered Indian i hildrt n either in years past or today an educational offered the great bulk near to that anywhere equal of American children." If that indictment sounds like a gross exaggeration, the facts more than amply bear it out. Navajo Indians, nearly a thiid of the entire tribe, are functional illiterates in English. The average education level for all Indians under federal supervision is five school years. .More than one of every five Indian men have less than f,ve years of schooling. Dropout rates for Indians ain twice the national average in both public and federal schools. Some school districts have dropout rates approaching 103 jiercent. In New Mexico, some Indian high school students walk two miles to the bus every day and then ride 50 miles to i: i Achievement levels of Indian children are two to three ars below those of white students, and the Indian child falls progressively further behind the longer he stays in school. Since then s a direct relationship between educational attainment and ones standard cf living, it's no accident that the average income of American Indians is only SI. 500. 75 jxTcent below the national average. - Or that the unemployment late among Indians is nearly 40 percent, more than 10 timps the national average. Or that uncounted thousands of Indians migrate to cities only to find themselves untrained for jobs and unprepared for urban life. If anyone thinks the Indian is mostly to blame for his educational plight, bear in mind that only 1 percent of Indian children in e!ementary school have Indian teachers or princi-p- 4 . . . that despite a presidential directive twro years ago. oiify one of the 226 U.S, Bureau of Indian Affairs schools is governed by an elective school board . . . and that the BIA spends only SIS pvr year per child on textbooks and supplies, compared to a national average of S40. Among 60 recommendations from the committee, including a plea tor more funds for Indian education, are these: That locally elected Indian school boards be established for federal Indian schools so that parents will have some control over their children's education. That a National Board of Indian Education supervise the federal school system. That curriculum materials be immediately developed with which the Indian child can identify, and that educational appr oaches such as bilingual training be used. That Indian tribes and communities be given more significant control over funds spent for the education of their children. While There's room for arguing over means and methods, the goal is clear: If his lot in life is to improve, there should be a national commitment to achieving educational excellence for the American Indian. t I, t As lung as t:;e U S. and Jaeau um.-.i.tre o:. major rations nut Mities to the Geneva Protocol, we will leave ourselves open to needless criticism and mismterpietation of our foreign policy. Iwts get the treat returned to the Senate and tatified as a token of America's peaceful intentions. By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY THE DRUMMONDS DRUMMOND WASHINGTON Can Richard Nixon be President of the United States? He can occupy the oftice, but car. he anybody eise enectiveiy run tne vast, creaking, cumbersome, overgrown monster called the fcdetal government? oi on have some good ne.re: Mutually every high o.fitiai in the Executive Blanch, including those in the Cabinet, agrees that it is an administrative mess and that something must be clone. Vve iiave some bad news: Virtually every high onicial of the administration. ipl:e! --- rei'i .,r.p our Aar and r?"t a Lit wish your shopping and 111 get bask to my squeezing." "Thanks. Mr. W nipple." I said. "0. . on e b;wk. well talk about and wlen YOl'R pioblem." crazy in this store It would not and that is what the President's Advisory Council on Execu-?iy- o Reorganization is tolling him. Tuis council is headed by Roy Ash, president of Litton Industries, and includes other men widely experienced in both management and government. high-calib- are They wide-rangin- g telling Mr. NLxon that iadi-cal- . reorganization is e. that if reTiiey are telling him mot' organization is to work, it will have to hegm at home, at the top, in the "Tide House itself. 1 t ,e i l'1!l!llllllliillllilll,iii:!iilllilllhllhlllilllllllllllllllllllIlllHlllllllllllllllllllll!ll', LETTERS TO THE EDITOR iiiiiHiiuiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiin'iiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiHiiiiiiniHiiimiiiiiiiiaii And it isn't certain that the President is entirely immune to that human nearsightedness which afflicts most of his subordinates and causes each to feel that every other arm of the government need reorganization but his own. The Asii Council puts its own priority on what it should do It is dealing with the operation of the government': massive and overlapping social programs, with law enforcement and with the agencies. But its nignest is restructuring Mr. Nixon's own operation, and this rests on the conviction that if he President can improve tne and process of his own decision-makiniie the rest of the gorer-nien- t machine can be made is w hat's w rong : The President has ro adequate information and can't get it on whetlai the government's costly, programs are working well or badly or at ail. The departments don't even know. Example: Nobody in the administration could tell the Ash Council how much federal money was being spent for what purposes in just one area of one city. t! e Without adequate information, President can't evaluate anything that is being done or rot done. The Pre'idert must get muiii ber-- r control of the government if h is to do the job he was elected to do. The recent White House stall reorganization all in the right direction the merest beginning, two yards a. erg the 20 miles of needed reform. g im ludmg those in the Cabinet, c iauns that the mess exists everywhere in the government except in his own department and that it he were given more money and a few more programs from other agencies everything would be fine. vou far-flun- Is It Justice? Like most American'. I wa.ted anxiously for President Nixon's Vietnam speech., but after hearing the speech I (n.i o:.'y c'.prrs- di'appcirtnf";. A kev phrase vimn wa U'pd several tunes ih. r should be noted . "a ju- - and hoi.oiable pern c." I wonder how tie Prn- - urr can speak oi ju't.ce w . - t i .r Tv . nuiiuf ttutrii. cjhuiuh. ivj i..t ikt'pvit ui i. it misit t.or.al Control Commission en Violations of t, e Geneva Am. cements (lPITt, the United States was t is paity to violation e! f e agreements which did not to sium. lountiv azrepd suppo:t lalt'ough n: At tide' 1 and 17 spei 'filed'; : "The viola'ic's n.entiored alore ojien iiitroauction into Sou i " Vietram of Unimd State' military persoimr'!ot tiie right ot President Ni.xun a Bo Vietnaa . determination of i ,e eople of whereas the Geneva Agreements states: ", . . tt.e military urrr.srcdiori Iirir h proi siona! and - h r.ot in any way be interpreted as constituting a poht-mor territorial boundary." Tie Preside. t aBo commend'd American youth f u t .eir idealism, but vowed to speak for the m!ci t majority. I hope that he will begin to empha'.ze speak111? Jiutne and honor with a program ii compliance v itn meinationel agreements, spec,! tall'., immecua'e windrow ah Ti.e silent ma;on"s i"U.d spedk up .r.d voae their concern for ? j a.,d rororabi pe.u e sen etning that cdr S. withdrawal. U p mure hate by accompii'l Ir -- - Let us beinn to ro ad. let .s Disraeli. Icrg-- r merely speak of ju-iIn the words of Benjamin ROGERS -J- OHN W. DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Second Thoughts About Television SYDNEY J. HARRIS By r.v cousin. Alexander Pope, is no point in breaking a i utter fly upon a wheel, and the "new" snows I looked at for a couple were so uniformly miserable el eve"i t .. t it i in,'. be oo; i'h even to castigate t am by e Viorymity is all the fate d w i.I assuredly have by the; deserve But. - a- vice said, there ! eniistr...,'. ure purta .i. u aspect ..'eifsteu me. however o, the TV 'tei e and that is the char gmg mores and standards oi humor. Perhaps the worst show I caught was a Bob Here 'Special" with some 20 ccmed.ans minting and wheezing and scarcely raising spontaneous laughter. old-nm- .e t"t bcore ard Js.s; ' huge t.us, o, 'tilled a p'ograrn beaded ty Weedy A'lee ,,'iu ui.otner featuring v I Wil'i ! - NEW YORK (NANA) On the moon, at least, it's still a man's world. There are no female American astronauts yet. although the Russians have already lorg ago broken the sex barrier with a lady cosmonaut. But with speculation about longer and longer space flights, some lasting years, the possibility of female space crew members becomes moie real. Of com re. the euucation and expertise required of the astronaut candidate .s considerable. Since men continue to outnumber women m the fields of seienre and aviation, the pool of potential female asttonauTs is necessarily smaller than for wale'. But wlen protessionai experience and technological skills are equal, psychologists and psychiatrists associated with space programs point out. the key factor m selection or rejection of an astronaut is psychological suitability. As lengthier periods of space travel are considered, some authorities feel that the entera used to assess psychological suitability' wi'l be somewhat altered. Di. Henry ob'Cives t.,at c.,e f i h.iiactei i't i o men currently seas tp! or atiiraut naming i a valu.r.g oi activity. Ur.he such men may be able to toleiate tt: relative immobility and ior.str.urtd quarters required for space flight for short periods of time endurirg such restraints for months, even years, might oe more difficult. In this case, men of a more passive temperament might Ire better stuted. Women who are typicallv less aggressive, less aetivity-oner.teand better able to cope vvih none tore might be especially equipped to ce.-twrh the forced restrictions rf Spell e t.,gr r two ot r e newer coired-.a d hc.!h uf them r .red tar !',-:..- . c . :..s ,o: ed e v.e i. tl IcgP'l.ei g, t, t Ho; y i t el. Erure. c s '".' ' ; !m I i d a t e e'.d t I I Kfp ole g' . w - w hr-e- -t t P r t r y i ci'f.i s I,..- - ,vd yue.u cl (' ,s ,'K - . d . i .. a o : or'a -- c . 1 t ' t , d t5 . a , ,.,,.,1,, , . a w, .s t'.g i f ' ' . ( Or.e sv . ; and r , : ! lv. a we cetoIog.i 'c I. , comi-d- f - r , i - h.- v re ,.f s the a'.e ref e out g r c c H r 1986 Wilson Are. Sneaked Into Schools Women As Astronauts When t e new TV st"on started I thought Id give it a whnl, just to demur 'irate my secret nutate and sense et justice, since I had been kicking TV around for many years. I wistfully hoped things might be a little better on the t :g tube. w-- xT G. PrummoiM It. Drummond O't piijfo.i. d ;:d c.,' cd.ar.ge ,:i ou: pcpalar culture the U't few years r.iatct.rg the "new sound" in music has been the kind of humor exemplified by t: e Smothers Brothers. I.augh-In- , Woody Allen, ar.d mat who'e trred, whose recret ourre o? Lem v e !rte dark strength s '.nys Ip "Justice is truth n action." Pei.cp' tie to Picr.iitr I went pt.-ont- y The answer the President is getang from his experts is no. not now. not the way things are. The fact is that no Pie'idn:; t.m got s hands on tup levers ot the fedeial n areaucrat y because when he grabs one lever labeled "Do It Now" he finds it is attached to a dozen other levers v.hkh are attached to nothing After JFK had been m the Wlne House a while he remarked in exasperation: "Sure. I can give orders, but nothing seems to happen." ho folk Ho Mr. Nixon kr.ov ? tai'e his vo,ce. but it becomes a mere whisper when it gets beyond the walls ot his Oval Office and into the corridors of the bureaucracy. " s ' j- fi-- st. And by tunning it we mean make it responsive to his leadership. n u tt sm: !uid have : e.l.' urn the Con Nixon Reolly Be President? ... p' v ry 'tne:? r an:.) doing Far S..to. should make sure the U.S. itt...:.s control of its Ok.. raw a air bases. Moving the nuclear bomotis to such alternate sues as Korea. Guam, or the Marianas sctiously reduces the eff.--cf these fo.u s. U o it ii u i Keep The Air Bases . '..pi Mrs. Bomhet k I "I understand." i,e r ouued. sure "No. you don't." I ersi'ted. times with all those technical term- - I get so contused I don't know vhat In Vve The opportunity is at hand for the United States to strike a small but symbolically important biow for peace that we should have struck 44 years ago. Today a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee headed by Rep. Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin begins hearings on resolutions by 10S congressmen calling on President Nixon to return the Geneva Protocol of 1925 to Congress for ratification. Similar resolutions have been sponsored by 22 members of the Senate. The protocol pledges the 62 nations that have adopted it Hut to initiate the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or otho: gases. and bacteriological methods of waifare." Since the U.S. was one of the protocol's original sponsoi s aid s.g! atories. it's ironical that this nation didn't ratify ;t long ago. But in the isolationist mood of 1925, the Senate balked, and when defeat seemed imminent the treaty was withdrawn and returned to the White House. Wh.ttrvt r leluetanee still remains to ratifying the proto- el ,s based on fears that debate over it would call attention to th.s atiun's use of tear gas in Vietnam. But it lMi't certain that the protocols bn on "other gases" Hu '.tide te..r gas. It eertair.lv would not prohibit tire U S tiom r;,i: ri. '.tilling or stockpi'ing ehemcd. hnett t lolog-k.oi adolog'.i a! v,iions Nor world it prohibit the U.S. turn it plying ri lord ,f such weapons utie used against us re TV to go s.,re' nil cal Keep up on t!.P r,CWPs a h rt ( ci'. i(. I tu.it. Mi :i Pl'ZMtp . toIJ k c a I uoMMMt kr.o-1- . aX'Zjj : . Ratify This Treaty o !: It GOes c i As I was teilii g Ml. A ipj, e tne other day, 'Stop squeezirg ard pu' thore lemors down! I've got a problem " "Is it your rotten cake- - again? re chided. "No. You see. Mi. UhippK In: i t what jord call the brightest housewife in the world. I only had a rear cf general science. Tne other day I tried to ask for a headache remedy and by tne time I got effervescent analgesic tablets' out of my mouth I r in t have the headache anymore. I had a.i advanced case of perspiration. "So what's the problem?' he asked. "1 tried to buy a deodoiant. but muldn't pronounee aluminum rhiorK-drate.- " t a - con- n.iectar' win ammonia hool. making am a:.d toothpaste v. mi 'tar.nuus fiuonue. in college I dated a Forty-thousan- d m J g to -- with bath soap cortairung Lexachloi'ip hene and trir'iot-arbo- . After Pitf.d'i.t .War. A 1 ,t'i - P "Now. : n e. ort c. You re . pai-"" i..P Wat V0J Car, er.d r k r S..1 .ps sounds "You "atch tPleu-io:- :. lan- v - .ct a r..ou".r.wai cm platform- fronted v ade If the guage anymore. Going up and down the grocery Educational Excellence sc otrer If horr.enakir.g t,eLon.es ar s, er.tinc. I an gc.rg to broo out and become a phjsir.-- n To be hone-- t win. ou. I can hard:;, ( .'h P'-- jts ol"r e umi-B'.- vet ti.d qa i,ty hn sea Tor : t ,e to get alia g ..til wm.e ten.n: g t" ard p Ti' NfciiP ecen as 'cup rre.vs a'p laiui.f iqier.iti' epC" , tv. ei v ..1 i ;- - Pi'ri-trm- t'-- mission Soc'dl 'Kills are deve, ared Par'v ,n women and ti'.ey tend to be more adep' at handling interpersonal relationships, more attuned to the subtle differences which can make for discord or harmony within a group. Tliis expertise could be invaluable in space flight. Women are at a definite disadvantage to men in physical strength but they do excell at tasks requiring f.ne manual dexterity. Endurance and stamina are crucial but there are many onboard tasks that require dexterity more than physical strength. Women are also le" vuirerefc' t ..n men to the hazards of stiesg. ('..spare and unfavorable environments. On the other hand, the ability iu with anxiety successfully is crucnal during space flight. Emotional con'ml is essential even in the face cf possible Research indicates that men tend to function well when there is a certain amount of tension present, suih as there is in any space venture, while womm 'end to be less posi ively affp(ed. r. sensitivity training." I kno from to Mi. With due that "sex educa krowledge tie present personal tion" in the schools is runmolled by SIECUS tnrough a deceptive interlocking directorate of SIECUS board members posing cn other committees. SIECUS has been exposed, as have many cf its members. Therefore, their duett efiorts to . n v push sex in the schools was stopped, and these "ins tellectual" pushers have chmbed on other to work there. mgani-zation- It B sad but tni that here n S,..t La we Lit'., sex education is taught in our schools, that SEICl'S materials and attitudes are being sneaked into the schools, and that Mr. Leake ot the State Board cf Education is unaware of the situation. Is thi' a tvpical example of our educational leaders? -- MRS. F. C. GRUN'EWALD 525 Sherman Ave. Seeks Research Data e Ipsui's of !P etii I'lVP'tlg IlOli' b" vve b.ave B'( rieimd tu initiate .t i.at.onw 'tie. dm turd level studv of t A.h, ton i. t.ons in nnhtaiy ard, Yetrrat tiaii'i'i medical lai ilitifs I i date, ih.e icjioiis' lea, hit g ts 1' of !u e indn ate a i onsniei able an mail of unprotessioiial. if n ( wku . seiva-- at su It f.u 'lines. It is our l.ojie to hi mg to die suit. ice lrloima-tio- n, L'l !. g, GUEST CARTOON Le-ur- e et t of t' Rvreari.il ,i both favorable as well as unpleasant, reg.ud-inpractices at these hospitals. To aeeomplish thu we mast hare the help of your readers. g ta-- k We would appreciate hearing from those leaders who have had experiences with military and oi veteran's melval facilities. Then repotts to us should include as nuii h information as ixTSsih! e sui rounding their i k u ding the c in t wit'i the fa, Pity (dates, d.ncs. tv jre o! n:e d pi'ib'em. tmti or ie. eti ). rentit' i'1 're t.e r m sr,' U (" " J it" e irx ,.t ot'tr i'l i,t be .( 'e i : j, i! ie " eir l m uni-ta- on-I.- u- -i v ! ' v gether tnr lorg periods of timp Ho-t- J rrjri re-- -, Burnt ens'rg from inferpersc-T- ) ( s ( r ,1 d Ot on " c . of trie spac i pi Nov. 6 you teiorted that Robert L. Lean0, ealth specialist for the State Board of Education, stated unequivocally that "Utah schools are not i.'ir g. and had not even considered U'ing matet ;,.s prepared ty he Sex Inorrr.ahon ard Educahon Council of the U.S. (SIECUSb ar.d are not teaihu g vi T, e ' . i -. of oi,i fin'll, 1,: , hi ,dong v, and suggestiors, wul i,p published and mai e available To the generd pub!,,--. . -- J. E. MOCFK, B I.ak. 4 s,iu te-ut- i s i 1 |