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Show Volkswagen Recap Tires For sale i Regular and Snow Treads available Plus old tire 380 South Main Cedar City, Utah TED'S MULTIPLE SERVICES REPAIRS ON Air Conditioning - Refrigeration Small Appliances Owner Phone TedKelsey 586-9128 A (GRMJILD OLD PM&TY FOnSYOHJ. Please accept this invitation to come to the GRAND OLD PARTY Thank You Ball' Senator Jake Gam, Senator Orrin Hatch, Congressman Dan Marriott and all other elected Republican office holders of Utah have planned an exciting evening of entertainment, light refreshments and dancing... one way of saying Thank You' for your vote and support during the last election. General Chairman: the Honorable David Kennedy, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Capitol Rotunda, January 7, 1977, 7:30 pm. Semi-formal. Everyone welcome. All political persuasions. O'oiS (So J PS ) Senator Jake Gam Senator-elect Congressman-elect Orrin Hatch Dan Marriott Funds raised at this event will be used to defray party campaign expenses. Send $25 per person (tax deductible) to: GRAND OLD PARTY Suite G-4, 350 South 400 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 5339777 Lruv!; 1 'The Birch Log (advertisement) The Education Fable by John F. McManus when he suddenly realized that Belmont, Massachusetts Not his tax dollars were being used to so long ago, there lived a man finance a school where numbers who claimed that he had re- were being taught, he promptly ceived a message from God. The asked the school officials to message informed him that the stop using numbers in all classes, use of numbers w,as evil and The perplexed school principal that he should cease using them refused, which led the deter-immediately. deter-immediately. He convinced his mined father, impelled by his wife and small children that, message from God, to sue the henceforth, they should use the school board, words some, few, or many where Before too long, the case they had previously used,, for ex- made its way right up to the ample, seven, two, or one hun- Supreme Court. After hearing dred. And the family made it a the arguments of expensive at-practice at-practice to flee whenever any of torneys, the learned judges acted them came into contact with the on the precedent established in "evil words and symbols." their decision against school As might be imagined, avoid- prayer, and decreed that, from ing numbers proved to be a dif- that day forward, all references ficult exercise, but they some- to numbers in the nation's how managed to get along. Prob- schools would be banned. The lems really developed when the decision was not very popular, oldest child started school. The and many said that they would first grade teacher ran into not abide by it. But federal trouble when she began to teach marshals were directed to roam counting and simple arithmetic, the country, to make sure that The anti-number child simply everyone conformed, fled from the room and, when he was finally caught up with, Fantastic, you say? Impossi- explained through his tears that ble? Well, maybe we have numbers were evil and that his stretched a bit to make our point, father had instructed him to What is our point? Simply leave if they were used. that the whole concept of gov- At a hastily convened paren- ernment schools is wrong, and tal conference, it was decided that compulsory government that the boy would be excused to schools compound the problem, go to the library during arith- How wrong, should be obvious metic lessons. But numbers be- when Americans are forced to gan to work their way into other finance such schools and deliver lessons, as when the teacher told their children to them while the the children to "turn to page central fact of everything they two." And .when the children believe, the existence of Al- were taught that there were sev- mighty God, is ignored and even en days in the week and twelve denied. months in the year, the youVig- If government at every level ster ran out of the room again. got out of the school business, Finally the teacher and the church schools and private principal arranged for a private schools would dot the land. Such instructor and an isolated place schools would violate no one's of instruction for this special rights, for everything about child. After all, compulsory at- them would be voluntary. The tendance laws made it impos- resulting competition among sible for him to stay at home, them would result in better edu-Even edu-Even though no one agreed with cated children, more responsible the odd tenet of this strange parents, and a sharp decrease in religion, all agreed that the fam- the power of the state. It would, ily had a right to believe as they in fact, take us back to the kind did, and that no one should of educational system that pro-trample pro-trample on their beliefs. duced the great men and women For a time, the boy's father who established this wonderful was satisfied that his son was country. not being Contaminated. But im The John Birch Society Feature, FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BIRCH LOG, CALL: BILL REAGAN jgg.B - |
