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Weesdoy, August 17, 1977 Honolulu Star-Bulletin A-15 Strikes ii the Readers' f3t Page A Particular Point of View It seems now is a good time for the taxpayer to go on strike. What would happen if the taxpayer refused to pay taxes until public servants resolved their differences? Anyone accepting a job as public servant, regardless of the position, whose salary and wages are paid by taxpayers' funds, should be required to sign an agreement whereby they rescind the right to strike. Failure to do this would eliminate them from the job. This should be mandatory, especially where a citizen's life might depend on the civil servant's performance. Originally unions were formed to combat the abuse by unscrupulous employers in private enterprise.

There is nothing unscrupulous in the treatment of civil servants today: therefore, there is no need to strike. It is time for the taxpayer to light for his rights and the best way could be by withholding the tax dollars that pay the public servants. This could be very effective in all ment whether on the federal. State, or City level. C.

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O. Box 3080, Honolulu, Hawaii 96802. By Thomas M. C. Chang Professor of education.

Counseling and Guidance Department. College of Education. University of Hawaii at Manoa I encountered was that of a white counselor, a soft-spoken lady, working at a rural school where the enrollment was almost entirely local. Emergencies and man-agement demands in elementary schools can be as overwhelming as in secondary schools, Chang says. Abortion tary, the parent education classes were so popular that over 1,200 parent signatures were obtained in a petition to retain the position.

In my mind, the areas that hold the most promise in the further development of elementary counseling in Hawaii are counselors becoming an integral member of the teaching team and helping administration with student development activities, working with parents and families, and serving as a liaison between school and community to tap resources to a maximum. I MUST COMMENT on a dubious DOE practice that was noted again, namely splitting a position between two schools. This is an administrative compromise. Some counseling service is better than none. But is it a fair work situation for the counselor? Emphatically not, especially if the district administration compounds the problem by splitting the position between two very large schools as occurred last spring.

In this case a very hard-working counselor became totally discouraged and started to blame himself until a perceptive principal sat him down and explained that he had done an excellent job and the demands of the two schools were simply too many for a half position to be effective. Beginning with our old timers, elementary counselors have developed an enviable reputation for pioneering, leadership, being valued members of the school staff, and strong professionals. The performance of Hawaii's elementary counselors has earned national recognition. All of this has provided our newest counselors with both a precedent and a challenge. I am personally confident that elementary counseling is in good hands.

The proper staffing of elementary school with counselors should not be delayed any longer. build on this initial turnaround in the coming semesters, helping potential school failures remedy badly needed basic learning skills and guiding them past academic obstacles that still beset them. THIS ANECDOTE is an example of the way most schools used the new counseling resources in preventive work, screening students for potential problems, doing developmental counseling, and working with teachers in an intensive effort to nip latent learning and behavior difficulties. For some schools this was a very difficult but wise choice. The crises, emergencies, management demands of our elementary schools can be as overwhelming as the secondary, and I know the administrators face a severe temptation to throw these unexpected resources into the breach.

Helping teachers in an effective way, working smoothly together, was accomplished very well, from personal observation and reports of teachers and administrators. Counselors used teacher inputs and feedback to sharpen their student assistance objectives. The counseling office was a valuable respite for both the troubled student and the busy teacher, and teacher-counselor brainstorming led to more effective education and heightened staff morale. I THOUGHT the new counselors had also started very well working with parents and serving as school coordinators with community agencies and resources. The impact was especially noticeable in the smaller schools with no VP's.

Tapping outside help does require a lot of contact, followup and keeping responsibilities straight. Almost all of the counselors-were deep into working with parents. At Honowai Elemen SOMETIME THIS month DOE Superintendent Charles Clark and the Governor's Office will have to decide whether or not to continue funding 35 counseling positions in our elementary schools. I respect the very difficult budgetary decisions that have to be made during these times and hope these comments may provide some new slants. It seems to me that expanding elementary counseling has taken a long time.

We all recognize the validity of an ounce of prevention, but over the last 15 or 20 years, it is the squeaky wheel, namely the expanding and obviously urgent problems of secondary schools, including simply staffing newly-built schools, that has siphoned off all the apparently available monies for school guidance programs. The elementary schools have waited patiently, and the tiny corps of elementary counselors installed in the 1950s has actually begun to retire. Finally, in 1976, 53 new elementary positions were allocated and filled. Thirty-five of these positions were designated as temporary for 1976-77 and required renewed funding for the coming year. Most of the new hires were newly trained, master's degree professionals, young, wide-eyed, optimistic, very resolved to do their best in their first full-time counseling positions.

How well did they do? I was interested because I had a part in training many of them and made personal visits to observe them in action. Regrettably, I did not expect my informal evaluations may be cut off so prematurely. I am deeply dismayed by the insensitivity shown by the union demands on industry to the health of the overall economy. Every concession, no matter how small, restricts the ability of industry to respond to the pressures of consumerism. The progression effect of organized labor's wage and fringe victories on raw material through saleable product is becoming a burden that the consumer can no longer bear.

It is time for organized workers to face the inescapable fact that above all else they are consumers. The race between wages and costs must be halted. There will be no victors and no end to such a race. Please stand against the labor movement and give a vote of confidence in the role of the consumer in our economy. Give industry a chance to expand and supply people the jobs and products we desire.

Gerald Sash Pearl City. Hawaii I believe our policemen and firemen are underpaid. I believe it is unfair to ask people to risk their lives, daily, for a salary that is less than the average truck driver. I also believe any policeman or fireman who goes on strike should be fired. Permanently.

Frank Adams non-white, not academically oriented. The fifth and sixth grade youngsters were very much into testing the adult authority, fighting, getting into mild and serious mischief, intent on asserting their newly-felt manliness. The administration was beleaguered, a small school without vice-principal help. The counselor's strategy was to channel these students' (all boys) strivings for acceptance, leadership recognition and plain attention-getting into positive accomplishments. She used role-playing, game-playing to develop enhanced self-confidence and self-concept.

These students then became peer counselortrainers as they taught these games and roles to their' classmates. The techniques are peer counseling, Fullmer model. At the end of the semester, these unruly and often very difficult "problem" students were the strongest supporters of the school, still loud and overly forward sometimes, but only their way of being friendly and affectionate. This story makes good reporting, but the crux is whether or not we will be able to Women do not get pregnant in order to have an abortion, but unwanted pregnancies DO occur. Conception can occur from accident or ignorance, or from rape or incest.

Pregnancy lasts nine months; motherhood lasts a lifetime. Women must have the right to choose whether to bear a child, and this choice should not be determined by ability to pay. The Honolulu Branch of the American Association of University Women commends the State of Hawaii on its position of giving the women of Hawaii this choice, and we will continue to actively support abortions with public money for those women who are unable to otherwise afford them. Sheila F. James Legislative Chair AAUW Honolulu Branch THE MOST CHARMING situation Love The Kaho'olawc Issue Liars, thieves, and greedy people; arrogant, rude, and full of hatred.

Surely I've been at least one. if not all of those, myself. And I think I would be safe to say so has everyone else. So when are we going to come to realize the answers to the problems we face daily, rely mostly on correcting what's within ourselves. Instead of what we tend to do most often, by condemning others for their faults, when we have done exactly, or if not, similar mistakes at one time or another.

Love can be the only answer. For within it is found everything which is at all possibly good; kindness, patience, meekness, honesty, unselfishness, and above all. the ability to forgive one another. David Foss there are a number of people here who have not, to this day. understood the real plight of the "Ohana to Protect Kahoolawe." This is evident in Francis King and the rest of "his" characters of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.

To come out and' wrongfully criticize the Ohana truly is a cheap shot. Some of the most qualified people in the field of Hawaiiana stand in full support of the Ohana's actions. I'm sure there would be a lot more qualified and dignified Hawaiians in the Ohana if they weren't like Francis King, ashamed of fighting for what is rightfully ours. He speaks of retrogression of the Hawaiian people when Ohana members appear in the courts of law dressed as they are. It shows that they are proud to be Hawaiians and so are dressed as Hawaiians.

Gordon R. Oamilda Particular Point of View Homosexuals in Society By William E. Woods Executive Director, Sexual Identity Center "Sure, that was a pretty violent show, but I don't feel affected, do you?" PTAs Oppose TV Violence The Star-Bulletin ran a front page article (July 22) concerning the Gay Rap Program at the Sexual Identity Center. The principal speakers. Gerri Madden and T.

J. Bosgra. represented classic religionists' views on homosexuality. These views are that homosexual-; ity is condemned by the Bible and therefore should be legally suppressed, as all so-called sin, mentioned in the Scripture, (i.e. murder, rape, thievery, Miss Madden is quoted as saying "You may be born with the tendency From time to time we have noticed through articles in your newspaper, the efforts of other organizations and individuals in calling the attention of the public to the ill-effects of TV violence.

As you know, during the last year, PTA's across the nation have participated in a "war" on TV violence under the able leadership of last year's national PTA president, Carol Kimmel. The PTA action plan on TV violence is set up in five phases: 1.. Organization of a national commission. 2. Hearings held in eight cities around the country to obtain lay and professional input.

3. Professional planner to develop criteria for monitoring and guidelines for contacting stations, net works, the FCC, sponsors, and legislators. 4. Training and action phases of PTA volunteers: regional and state 5. PTA members will be requested to monitor and evaluate TV programming, participate in national letter-writing campaigns, and personal visits to local stations, networks, sponsors, and legislators.

It should be made clear that PTA is not a censor of TV programs, movies, books, or magazines. While it does not presume to dictate what adults may read, see, or hear, it does believe that they should guide their children's activities. Rose Pfund President, Hawaii Congress of Parents and Teachers Society has the same obligations to gays as to straights, Wood argues, and members of both groups should act as responsible individuals. Kaho'olawe has always been a symbol and a "catalyst" to us representing proper land use in Hawai i. We have called this attitude "Aloha However, since our last visit to Kaho'olawe, it is my personal mana'o that the key to this entire Kaho'olawe issue is its historical significance.

The State archaeologists are slowly but surely uncovering the most significant findings of pre-mis-sionary Hawai'i ever to be found in these islands. Because it is not part of their job, they have not reported to the public the condition of these sites that they have recorded. On our last trip to Kaho'olawe. Adolph Helm, Walter Ritte, and myself took approximately 70 pictures of different historic sites, many of which have not yet been recorded or marked with the red and yellow flags of the archaeologists. More than 50 per cent of these sites have been destroyed almost beyond recogj nition.

We have the pictures to prove this and we will make them available to the public for their enlightenment. We also have pictures of many instances where we found large bomb fragments located in the middle of sites which still could be rebuilt and restored. We even found a couple of possible sites which were painted white and, therefore, designated as specific targets. We must appeal to our Senator. Daniel Inouye, to do something about the preservation of the invaluable, unrecorded history of Hawai'i nei.

We must appeal to him to stop the destructive bombing. It is his responsibility as a representative of this land to ensure that the future generations of children not be deprived of an education and awareness of the true history of this land not found anywhere else but on the Island of Kaho'olawe. Richard W. Sawyer. Jr.

Inmate, Halawa Prison and Kaunakakai, Molokai According to my dictionary, "trespass" (law) is defined as follows: "Any wrongful act accompanied by force, either actual or implied, as wrongful entry on another's land, whereby another is injuriously treated. Aggression, attack, offense." It seems to me that the bombing of Kahoolawe Island is a trespass by the government upon the land belonging to the American people. The military offenses against Kahoolawe are in contrast to the peaceful occupation by the Protect Kahoolawe Ohana. Consider: The Ohana has never used force or injured the island during its occupations; the Ohana intent is to peace-" fully halt the destruction of public land and the remains of our cultural heritage upon it. The Ohana is not guilty of trespass.

Stop the bombing! Stop promoting wars! George Peabody Ualapue, Molokai In regards to an article published on Aug. 10, under "Deplores Con-duct" I'd like to say this. It seems to mr as a native son of Hawaii, Equal Rights One reason frequently advanced for opposing the Equal Rights Amendment is that equal rights, especially with regard to equal pay for equal work, are already provided under various laws. A rather impressive list of such laws was provided by Luella M. Harris in a letter to the Forum on Aug.

13. However, the headline story of the-July 31 Star-Bulletin Advertiser reveals that "congressmen pay their top male staffers 18 per cent to 129 per cent more than they pay women staffers with the same job Furthermore, "House members (are not subject) to the same antidiscrimination laws that apply to The concept that women already have equal rights under the law is invalid. Women do not have equal rights under the law. The inadequa cy of present laws to provide equality for women workers is incontrovertible; women are making less in comparison to men now than they were in the 1940's. This is true both overall and when the comparisons are made between men and women in the same job, with the same training, and with the same experience.

I can confidently expect to have a salary substantially lower than I would have were I a male. So can every woman' who holds a job. The reality of discrimination cannot be wished away by saying that there are already laws against it. The current laws are simply inadequate. We need the Equal Rights Amendment.

Kay K. Currv to homosexuality; nobody is born with the behavior." Mr. Bosgra cited Bidding civil law. Homosexuality is. and has been a natural sociological occurrence in most non-Judeo-Christian cultures both in antiquity and contemporary times.

THE SECOND anti-homosexual argument, that of influence, also bears some inspection. Miss Madden said, "You may be born with the tendency to homosexuality; but nobody is born with the behavior." The majority of the psychiatric community agrees and generally recognizes the fact that homosexual attitudes and behavior are firmed very early in life probably in the pre-teens. In reality it is not the active homosexual that influences the neophyte, but most probably the environment and specifically the home environment. Not necessarily negative family characteristics or relationships, but rather a combination of environmental variables too complex for present analysis. This holds true for the development of heterosexuality.

It would seem that the two most entrenched arguments may be totally unreliable. There are some realities, however, which must be faced by both gay and straight communities. There are maladjusted people in both walks of life. There are law-breaking homosexuals just as there are law-breaking heterosexuals. "Straight" teachers often take advantage of their students both sexually and philosophically.

"Gays" are not the only possible violators of young minds and bodies. however, usually requires the gay to be more publicly chastised. THE SUM of it is that society has the same obligation to the gay offender as the straight. The same mentalphysical health programs must be available to all without prejudice. The gay must receive assistance without pressure to change his sexual preference.

Remember, homosexuality is not against the law. The counter-responsibility of all identified groups, blacks, feminists, gays, straights, Orientals, Amish, etc. is to present themselves to the world as responsible individuals seeking to preserve the dignity of but insisting on their individual right to live their chosen lifestyle without oppression. Prime Problems It is strange, referring to your "What Do You Think?" column of Aug. 8, that no mention was made by any of the interviewees of several prime problems existing here which are common to the' Mainland, too.

Namely, that little respect exists among young people here regarding the person or property of others-Witness the vandalism of park and municipal benches (i.e.; those provided for bus patrons) and the concurrent and identical vandalism created within the confines of our public transportation (TheBus) system. Not mentioned either is the fact that in our State where college professors are among the highest paid nationally, that our students cannot read, write or count in many instances. Further, no one evidenced concern regarding littering and despoliation of our once beautiful island by trash. No one seemed overly concerned that continued high rise development is obliterating our marine and mountain vistas. Finally, no one mentioned that the aloha spirit is much less in evidence on this island.

J. Cory Honolulu members of the design professions are growing a little weary of the repeated references to "non-bid contracts" for City and County work in the Fasi-Towill-Ame-miya imbroglio. The use of competitive bidding for professional services is considered bad practice by the Consulting Engineers Council, the American Institute of Architects, the National Society of Professional Engineers and other professional design societies. Furthermore, the act of knowingly submitting price proposals is contrary to the Hawaii State Board of Registration Rules and Regulations governing professional licensing. Title VII, Chapter 10, Part 1, 1.2(j) states: "Misconduct in the practice of engineering, architecture, land surveying or landscape architecture constitutes any or all of the following: (4) To enter into competitive bidding against another on the basis of compensation or to use donation or misleading information on cost as a device for obtaining competitive advantages." The rationale behind this is that a professional man would not cut corners or cheapen his design effort in order to get a job.

the example of a reformed gay liberation leader Guy Charles, who became a heterosexual and has supposedly converted many others. The facts of these statements are for the most part true. 1. Homosexuals are made, not born, and 2. Individuals who desire, may change to heterosexual activities.

THOSE WHO would suppress the homosexual generally have two basic arguments. The concept, explained earlier, and the "I don't want my children influenced" idea. Analysis of these positions can produce some interesting conclusions. The scriptural-based argument, while valid to the believer, can have little reality for the unbeliever. Regardless of the fact that some wish to tout the United States as a "Christian country" the fact just is not true.

Whereas many of our laws have a base in the Judeo-Christian ethic, we are a republic based on freedom of the individual. The question does arise, if we stop suppressing homosexuality, then why not thieves and murderers. The obvious answer is that the adult law-abiding homosexual does not commit crimes against anyone. Sinful acts? Perhaps in the eyes of thScripture, but noj in the eyes of Son of Sam I predict, that by early next year, we will have an Orson Wells "Son of Sam" TV two hour special; Truman Capote and Book of the Month will have a 900-page best seller and finally, if Roman Polanski is still loose, we will have an hour and 26 minutes of it on wide screen. R.

M. Belt Ralph Vossbrin i 4.