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Thoughts Of Man How Can Public Schools Train In Vocations? rlanbo gcutwcl Tt ght tlhinkt la God always for yon all, making mention of you in out prayers, Thasalonians 1:2. Saturday Morning, July 1972 Public Sentiment To Determine Success Of Execution Amendment By RUSSELL KIRK In pructlcally every school dis-trlct of this land, public interest In vocational training or "career education" has revived In very recent yeurs. Reflecting this populur concern Rep. Roman Pucinskl recently told a group of publishers and scholars that two days out of every five should be set aside, In every public school, for such "career education." Rep. Pucinskl Is chairman of the House subcommittee on education, and is now running for the U.S.

Senate against Illinois Incumbent Sen. Charles Percy. He was addressing the meeting of the editorial advisory board of Open Court Publishing (LaSalle, XT I amendment, limits its application to those cases in which a person has willfully and deliberately taken a human life. His amendment reads: "Section 1. In the case of any crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life, the power of a state or of the Congress to declare the punishment thereof shall include the power to impose and provide for the carrying out of the death penalty.

THE DAY AFTER the Supreme Court threw out the death penalty for all practical purposes, a constitutional amendment to restore it was introduced in Congress. Others will follow, but what success they will have will depend upon several things, including the rate of increase in crimes of violence and, most of all, public sentiment. U.S. Rep. Louis C.

Wyman, who introduced the first The Murders Go On "Section 2. In the case of treason against the United States, the power of the Congress to declare the punishment thereof shall include the power to impose and provide for the carrying out of the death penalty." After passing Congress, the amendment would have to be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states within seven years to become law. 0 0 0 IN REVIEWING the Supreme Court's decision, it is interesting that the court said that in almost all cases the penalty of capital punishment violates the Eighth Amendment which prohibits excessive bail or fines and "cruel and unusual punishment." Yet the court ignored the Fifth Amendment which states, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury. Thus the Constitution specifically recognizes that capital cases exist and are contemplated by its authors. With the Fifth Amendment as a guide, one is led to believe the Eighth Amendment is prohibiting torture, not capital punishment.

Prelims Hot LIFE IS like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, and every sale, is registered and recorded. BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN "I SENTENCE IN LOS ANGELES, where there was no death penalty even before Supreme Court acted to outlaw it generally, a four-year-old girl was killed by a shotgun fired from a slow-moving car. It appears those responsible were just looking for someone to kill when they spotted Joyce Ann Huff playing innocently in a neighbor's yard. Whether abolition of the death penalty had anything to do with the murderers' decision to slay Joyce Ann is unknown.

In the end, society will have to 'New Killer' "WHAT STRESS Can Do To You," is the subject of an article in Fortune magazine. Aimed mainly to the killing stresses faced by businessmen, it carries a message of significance about heart disease. "Cardiovascular ailments such as coronary heart disease," Fortune says, "now take an appalling annual toll in lives of American men in vigorous middle age Yet until this century, heart disease was virtually unknown anywhere in the world." 0 0 0 THE SUSPICION is growing that more than food is involved. Fortune quotes one authority as saying, "If you could perfectly control cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, glucose level, serum uric acid and so on, you would Ruling Called 'Sickening' a firm which has publish philosophical and scientific works for several generations, and recently has been Immensely successful with Its buslc readers for elementary schools. Open Court's advisory board con-gists principally of well-known scholars, writers and educators.

Doubtless somewhat to Rep. Putin-ski's surprise, his remarks were received hotly rather than warmly. Mr. Clifton Fadlman, who among his other talents Is a principal authority on children's literature, was really incensed at Rep. Puclnski's suggestion that the principal mission of public schools Is to serve American technology and increase American productivity.

I FELT more sympathy with a part of Rep. Pucinski's argument than did most of the other consultants who heard him. I doubt very much whether we need to increase our national emphasis upon technology and economic production; perhaps we are banefully obsessed with such things already. Yet it remains true that at the high school level, many pupils havei received as much in the way of abstractions as they can digest without exploding. It would be better for such students, and for our society, if they could spend at least part of their time in learning some trade or art.

Certainly it Is foolish to urge such young people to attend even a community college upon graduation from high school, when they have grown desperately bored with the typical classroom. REP. Pucinskl seemed to have in mind more "career education," for two days a week, right in the schools. That notion has become popular with many parents, and even with a good many students, who are demanding that the local high school be equipped with the latest machines and technological contraptions, and staffed with expert teachers of the mechanical disciplines so that boys and girls can get good industrial jobs upon graduation. This notion is a fallacy, I think.

Not only would it be immensely costly to attempt any such massive reproduction in schools of the facilities of modern industry, and difficult to find competent teachers, but no sooner would pupils be trained, at best, to operate certain types of machines and engage in certain technological operations, than those processes would be obsolete. ACTUALLY, the only satisfactory way to prepare a young person for work in modern industry or even in such relatively traditional crafts as shoe-repair and carpentry is apprenticeship, otherwise called "on-the-job training" or (with an affectation of gentility) "internship." Certain important skills, such as typewriting or use of a slide rule, indeed can be taught effectively in schools but not "business management" or "modern industrial technology" in general. For many high school students (though certainly not for all), it Would be well to spend two days out of the school week in learning some vocation. It would be preferable, through a policy of "released time," to permit such students to work as apprentices perhaps as paid helpers. It would be necessary to secure the cooperation of the unions and of business and industrial management, but that can be contrived nowadays.

I DON'T mean that the typical high school student knows too much about literature and history and physics and mathematics: I think that, hei doesn't know nearly enough. Yet the fact remains that 12 or 13 years in the classroom is more than many energetic and active young people can take passively. You can drive such colts to water, but you can't make them drink. The reform of public schooling should begin at a much earlier age. In many elementary schools, half the time is wasted.

If we would teach the basic disciplines better and more rapidly, it should be possible for the average eighth grader, say, to be as fully instructed as is the average twelfth-grader today. Then we really could do something worthwhile with the arts and the sciences in high school, for students "academically minded." And we could find time for those students who prefer practical pursuits to spend two days a week, or more, in apprenticeship without having to sacrifice what the high school now offers. (2rlanbo Sentinel William O. Conomor Editor And Purlirhir HARRV M. TlMMONt GENERAL MANAGER SENTINEL OFFICES Orlando 33 N.

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Isn't this a comforting thought? The many who have been assassinated since 1962 and the recent attempt on Gov. Wallace's lifei leaves great men dead and perhaps Gov. Wallace crippled for life. Yet those who are responsible are confined to a "quiet jail cell" with food, medical treatment and the luxuries of the living. All, I may add, provided for by the taxpayers who in this case had no opportunity to be heard on this very vital issue.

It would be to the best interest of this country if the people who pay taxes and have hope for a better future could have something to say by the way of the ballot box. In recent years the high court has done much to make this an unsafe place to live and has created chaos where they could have provided reassurance and confidence in our government and its officials. The overcrowded jails and prisons are good criteria that the courts, laws and punishment are losing the race against crime, corruption, disorder and violence in what we casually refer to as a free society with justice for all. Somehow the victims and their families of these horrendous crimes can continue to live in fear and unforgettable sadness until we all become so completely fed up we try to correct the loopholes in the laws that free convicted murderers and rapists. We can no longer look upon the innocent victims of crimes as unfortunate victims of someone else's wrath or insanity and let the courts become interested only in the criminal.

The law-abiding citizen will soon yell out loud, "We have had enough!" And it had better be soon. MRS. P. SVERTESKY A policeman's widow Ormond Beach Can't We Recover, Use Rainfall From Roofs? Editor: Millions and millions of gallons of water are wasted yearly. In Bermuda water was drained, filtered and purified from the roof tops of homes, buildings and then purified for all purposes, including drinking.

With the constant heavy rainfalls we have In Florida, cannot this process be used? A. LARRtor decide what should be the fate of the killers of children, the kidnapers, the slayers of law enforcement officers and those who endanger hundreds of lives by piracy of airplanes. If society feels that a few years in jail is enough punishment for mad dog killers, then that is all those killers will get. But on the other hand, if society demands that murderers be dealt with as harshly as they deal with their victims, then in time the death penalty will be restored. Heart Disease have controlled only about one-fourth of the coronary heart disease cases." Fortune reveals how occupational stresses affect certain types of persons and make them prone to coronaries, drawing heavily on the views of two eminent cardiologists, Meyer Friedman and Ray H.

Rosenman. In the past 17 years, they have found that behavior patterns and stress are among the principal coronary culprits. Fortune concludes, "Now that even cardiologists are beginning to believe heart disease can be traced to unrelenting competitiveness and baffled fury, will a wave of concern over stress sweep over this hypochondriacal country, to match the widespread interest in jogging and polyunsaturated oils? Quite likely." poorer class just to gain an advantage in politics. It is the dirtiest kind of political advantage as it disregards human suffering and the following tells why. Twenty per cent of $80 per month is an increase of $16 to a total of $96.

Whereas 20 per cent of $200 is $40, or a total of $240. The cost of living (not including luxuries) goes up the same for everyone, not just a few in the upper categories. Approximately $140 is the division line between those in the upper and lower categories; each of which contain about 9 million persons. It is estimated that in the lower category the recipients will receive a total of $1,188,000,000 per month; but in the upper category they will take the lion's share of $1,836,000,000 and they need it the least. In other words, 60.7 per cent goes to those in the upper brackets and only 39.3 per cent in the lower brackets.

Giving a 20 per cent increase across the board is downright deceiving and wipes out any weighted equalization figure that originally existed when Social Security was first set up. Each of the 9 million persons involved should write to his congressman telling them this trick will backfire on them. PHILLIPS D. WHITING 'Is There No Virtue In Being Law-Abiding? Editor: Our most illustrious governor, the Hon. Reubin Askew has said it again.

The Orlando Sentinel carried this item: "Askew Expects Campsites." The Hon. Governor Askew "warned that the protesters will insist on camping on the beach despite an ordinance against it." Why does he tell the Miami authorities to grant this privilege and to spend this money for this mob? If the law would not permit me, just one loyal, law-abiding, tax paying American to put up a tent on the beaches of Miami and live there for a why should it allow 100,000 or more to do the same thing? Is there no virtue in being a law-abiding citizen? D. CLIFF PALMER Mount Dora Bring On Chess Champs ABOUT THE best news gleaned from the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match is, there's more to fun and games than baseball in the spring and summer, football in the fall and winter and basketball in between. Who but Joe Namath could sit in New York pouting over insufficent pay? Bobby Fischer could. He remained stubbornly in the United States until a sporting Englishman came up with the difference.

Then he checked his arrogance and flew off to Iceland to apologize to his Russian adversary who, by then, had acquired a little temperament of his own. Whether by design or by chance, the feud accomplished the improbable. It injected excitement into a solitary game incomprehensible to all but the participants. 'Wonderful Florida Magazine Articles1 On Flag Appreciated Editor: Thank you, and all responsible persons for the wonderful articles in July 2 Florida Magazine on the American flag, and especially "On Considering The Fourth Flag Etiquette." I have clipped the page for framing. BETTYE J.

McNUTT Winter Park Majority Opinion June 29 'Gave Us World Of Chaos' Editor: Re: The Supreme Court's ruling against the death penalty, a recent "Today's Chuckle" has a good answer: "If we want to make a new world, we have the materials handy the first world was made of chaos." That's what the majority opinion gave to America June 29! As to the Senate's passage, June 29, the same day the Supreme Court gave us chaos, of the $9.6 billion antipoverty bill, if they'd read the Bible they'd know "The poor ye will always have with you," as Jesus said. MRS. ANNETTA STANTON Belleview "I don't understand why husbands and wives are more courteous to strangers than to each other. C-vitry Parson. Editor: I suppose I am not the only person in the United States who read the ridiculous new Supreme Court ruling concerning capital punishment and felt a little sick.

Obviously those who have to deal personally with the, murderers, habitual criminals and the weirdos who plot against public officials are not too pleased either with this ruling. And this is understandable. Five of the Supreme Court justices have never had to work long, endless hours and do the tiring leg work that goes into tracking down those who for some reason or another cannot cope with society, but take what they want and need through violence. It seems to me the gun laws, which ill 'They're the same chessmen Bobby Fischer Court Decision 'To Have Two Important Results' Editor: The Supreme Court ban on death penalty will have, two important results: 1) Criminals will get out of prison by killing guards and other people who might try to restrain them, since no matter what happens, thei most they can get will be life imprisonment, and while there is life, there will always be hope for another escape. But there is a brighter prospect for the law-abiding victims of criminals: 2) Now it will be possible for the average citizen to take the law into his own hands and mete out justice to the burglars, members of organized crime, rapists, murderers and other criminals whom the courts release, because the worst that can happen to him, too, will be life imprisonment.

With the posh living conditions in our prisons today, the outlook is a darn sight more attractive than most law-abiding citizens have on the outside. So this new law may be the answer to survival. ESTRELLA MONTGOMERY Inverness 4La 3i Editor: Congress just forced through a 20 per cent increase in Social Security payments by attaching this to a debt limitation law that made it mandatory for the President to sign. This bill was forced through Congress by the insistence of most all Democrats to embarrass the President so they in turn could, at the next election, claim the credit for this increase. Now while an increase is certainly due, to put this flat rate increase in effect without any regard to the 9 million recipients who are in the below average payment category is indeed a cruel disregard of the 'Don't Need To Increase Social Security Tax Editor: I have sent the following letter to President Nixon: In your June 29 press conference, you stated before Social Security could be raised 20 per cent, increases in rates would have to be put into effect by Congress or it would jeopardize the entire program.

How do you figure that? The Labor Department reports over 80 million people are employed on a weekly wage averaging $129. Thus the weekly payroll now is $10,320,000,000. On this each employe pays 5.2 per cent; each employer pays 5.2 per cent, or a total of $1,073,000,000 weekly in Social Security taxes. This exceeds $54 billion annually collected for Social Security. Social Security expenditures per annum, according to Heath, Education and Welfare Department, are $36 billion annually, leaving a net balance of $11 billion if taxes are collected on present figure of 5.2 per cent.

At present rate, National News and World Report states only slightly over two million people over 65 are drawing Social Security; the other 24 million are children, widows, and the balance is used for welfare and other programs to bring total expenditures (including administration) to $36 billion. You do not need to increase the Social Security tax for Social Security purposes, but those on Social Security do need the entire 20 per cent raise. JOHN W. DeVINE Corpus Christi, Tex. Winter Haven W' nfR 241 3rd Street.

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