Las Vegas Optic from Las Vegas, New Mexico • Page 2

YetM DAILY OFTIC Friday, SepteMter 25, to the editor School aid questions asked The issue of public aid to private schools has been discussed in the editorial section of the Optic with a bit more heat than light. I should like to offer a few of my personal observations on this subject. (1) There are valid arguments on both sides arguments I shall not here belabor. But we should keep one fact clear in New Mexico, aid to private schools is virtually synonymous with aid to parochial schools, There is no way one can take a political stand on this issue free from religious overtones. In a personal sense there is no way I can write this letter and separate the political scientist from Protestant.

(2) The belief that the United States has'ever had a complete separation of church and state.is, at best, a myth, and, at worst, a useful He perpetrated those who have benefited most from'its implications. Public education in the United'States' h'as always contained a heavy dose of ProtestantT theology. We -tend to forget that the Catholic Church in country first established parochial.schools- as a reaction to the compulsory teaching of Protestant, dogma in'-'oiir school system and as late as middle 19501s I was instructed to accept the complete absence ofjPeter Rome as an "historical" Whatever the present, state of affairs the Catholic Church has understandable grounds for past grievances unjustly rendered. (3) Our government has always supported and promoted the established religious institutions of:" this nation (and vice versa). Now I don't wrong.

We are, and must continue to be an essentially religous nation. What is wrong is our blind'faith in the "separation" myth. Take, for example, church tax exemption. Should the government decide to exempt me from all taxes (approximately On the grounds bination of Hberal Spanish-Am- the president's chair and help- State Land Office and St that I was an exceptionally virtUOUS person, Would this "icans and conservative Angles e'd seal the action on the attor- poration Commission uhc i 4 TV LISTINGS FttOAY EOAT-TY K0B-TV 2:30 Run (or your life Movie: The Rinessan 3:00 3:30 Douglas Buck Private Come Home Daily Doiable .4:10 Newt Dark Shadows Timmy and Lassie 1 Luey HAL BOYLE NEW YORK AP) What this besides a good two-fbr-akjuarter cigar, is more selective worrying. Indiscriminate worrying is bound tb give even the best of brains the bends.

And that is what is happening to a lot of people: They hog worries, large and small. They feel that if they don't crinkle their foreheads' over problem facing mankind; nothing will be done about it. This is egotism. No eye can shed a tear every 'woe oh earth; and no single mind 'can resolve all.the conflicts that face the human race. Here'are few worries most of us might be willing to let someone' else fret about: 4V-ounce package of breakfast cereal' at 18 cents a better of buy than a 3- ounce package at 14 cents, 'particularly if when you buy the 18-eent 1 package you can send in a boxtop and get a.99-cent paring knife for 49 cents? If -Xpu: put three- front of typewriters, would they real- 5:00 5:30 Strange Paradise ntittfaa't Island Huntley-BrinkJey 6:30 Hogan's Heroes Newt Let's Make a Deal Newt Star Trek 7:00 Lancer Here Come Brides Name of the Game 8:00 Movie: Guns of The Brady Bunch 8:38 Navarone, Part 2 Mr.

Deeds' 8:30 Bracken's World It Takes a Thief 10:00 News News 10:30 Perry Mason Movie: News Tonight Show 11:00 Joey Bishop They Came Horrie 12:00 12:30, Weird Theatre News, Weather SANTA' com- But he wielded influence cretion in keeping the powerful 'f'nr not be the same as giving me Is this not SUp- nearly defeated the hairline 37- xiey general. ted officials although the SCC in Delegates had voted earlier to fight was lengthy-and bitter. port? Is it not promotion? cisicai to 'remove the attorney remove the state treasurer as The land (4) Rather than the nonsense about "separation" general as a constitutional of- an electedoffice by a decisive three SCC the crucial questions are these: Is the religious instrue- no nn and admini: knees give out he is rich enough to stadium and if his own? Shop Optic Classified Ads UViBETTHt EUCTWCAUY PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NfW MiXICO SATURDAY KGGM-TV KOAT-TT KOB-TV 7:30 Dastardly, MurtleyChattanooga Cats Pink Panther 8:00 Penelope Pitstop Hot Wheels H. R.

Pufnstuf 8:30 Scooby-Doo Hardy Boys' Banana Splits 8:00 Archie Comedy Sky 9:30 "Hour Gulliver Jambo 10:00 The Monkees Fantastic Voyage Flintstones 10:30 Wacky Races Amer. Bandstand Underdog Gang turday Martinee Rudy Feldman Menace Wide World of Mr. Magoo Rodeo Catholic) beneficial to ennancmg me moral Sports Project 7 Val De La Show to parochial schools be given priority over other needed i AngloSf mcstiy threat programs? There are no simple answers, but, at least, aunc conservatives, joined After a these are the right questions. Cordially yours, Kenneth M. Johnson Assistant Professor Political Science Dear Fellow During our membership drive last year we told, you of the goals the Lite CommercV set'for were: them in opposing the major session delegates soundly re- change.

jected Lacy's motion 4 43-24. Pol- of state, treasurer and attorney Nations increasing measurably recess in the tense eneral as elected offices. If the problem of' polluted air in voters approve, 'the changes would focus Which toothpaste should you 2:00 The Untouchables NCAA Football 2:30 Baseball -e in the governor's office, they brush with to insure developing of moderates, con- iticos to' preserve as would also enable voters to fix the'tewest possible: cavities in servatives and liberals teamed many statcrlevel offices as pos- together to push through the sible are expected, to campaign 3:00 Movie 3:30 Strawberry Blonde authority for operating government in -the governor, vital shift a key convention strongly against; the new con- The ma shifts would a action. Bernalillo County del- stitution. egates.

were decisive in adopting, the Thiifteen of 18 vinrnttn WUIIlCIl move away from present fragmentation. in favor of keeping While the convention state your teeth? When will ithe -Vietnamese get out5f Vietnam? Are the' Indian head-hunting tribes; in Brazil's forests being helped or hurt by the-worldwide populatipn explosion? 4:00 4:30 GE Bowl Huntley-Brinkley 5:00 Porter Wagoner 5:30 News Dating Game Football Highlights Adam 12 6:00 News 6.30 Charlie Brown Newlywed Game Lawrence Welk News in Sight Bill Cosby vot Will Frank an elected SCC tiri romance in.his^eOs? 7:30 Petticoat Junct. Johnny Cash Shcnandoah Chamber comprehensive sell the Chamber of Commerce to Las Vegas, and; to sell Las Vegas. 3: A comprehensive industrial facility-brochure. 4.

A new tourist and recreation 5. Commercial air service for Las Vegas. I am proud to announce that we have accomplished and a. Republican, all five of goals. We managed'also; a 100 per iceril increase in our membership, we have taken, revive he Las Vegas Development have i counsel the governor and Mrs Mary WaUers a of BCI-- worked to protect our members from fraudulent "con therefore.

the; governor shwid nalill Count y- a Mrs. Floyd and we distributed over 20,000 brochures about a Ppoint he- tween former Gov. L. several employes rid lob-; i there any way that civiliza- byists for the lion or the TJ.Sl dollar can be Mountain Bell Co. watched, in- ade safe" for posterity? tently.

from House gallery. Whither are we drifting? is the frequentAfrictidn in pte- 'tte Elected "oost'were'Mrr raiion commission, with all these big, brain- sent and past administrations Virginia Kittell who ers many of their employes iand steaming problems left to oth- between Democratic attorneys rt -A A others lobbied successfully and ers- "a fellow is free. 1 to concen- JiriH ft DlllllIOH Fl Orirl Executive Committee Chairman Charles: Tansey, 8:00 Mannix Fights 9:00 Hawaii Five-O 9:30 Movie: Andy Williams to keep the SCC elective, trate on close'at hand: Neill, Hobbs; Mrs. Tansey ably their to get to work "on time, and New Jackie Gleason News" Joe Pyne oo ero Gallup and Mrs. Joan Tve strong lobbying in arguing for whether miniskirts; will ever get 11:30 1 i 4 ri til rth OO Movie: a losing cause.

as high as prices. Balloting to remove the post as elective, were Miss Dorothy Cline, Mrs. Doris Miller and 12:00 Base at Taniak Combat SUNDAY KGGM-TT KOAT-TV KOB-TV Mechem and. ex-Attyi Gen. Fred games, Las Vegas to all parts of the country.

We wish not only to continue in this effort, but tp standley, Mechein "anT formed expand it. Atty. Gen. Earl and Only your investment in the Chamber of Commerce Gov. David F.

Cargo and Any. Gen. James Mafoney has too will insure our continued success. ofteri Sincerely, Las Vegas-San Miguel Chamber of Commerce David M. ty, national Republican committee-woman.

Delegates applied sound uis- disrupted 'processes of Student wins state Steve Leger, a West Las Veg- Many capable attorneys gen- as'as High School junior, walk- eral- have served New Mexico away, with first prize during but wheels of. government may a talent held in the Rodeo turn more smoothly with gov- Theater in Santa Rosa Tuesday crnor-appointed attorneys gen-. night. era l- Steve, son and Mr3. Ray Leger, made a hit with his Sedillo, chief county attorney rendition of La Virgen President Nixon's call for funds to go ahead'with a in Valencia County under m1 larcarena among other supersonic transport plane does not assure a.green'light tyue A1 a Sceresse, AI- consideration of the merits.

It is not an open-and-shut matter; there are viable arguments for and against this not be free." Sedillo emphasized costly undertaking. the attorney, general handles Opponents Say the SST'S SOnic boom WOUld -be in- t0 Leger is a member noise 48. Learned 50. Grotto 51. Facts 52.

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AP) conven- tolerable; they question the Tightness of spending a billion dollars of tax money on a plane that will mainly Jr Las Cruces lawyer, fought satisfy the yen of a few to travel at supersonic speed, and hard in the winning scrap tor Session opens in any case think the money would be better spent just an appointed attorney general. ALBUQUERQUE now on our social ills. The'SST's defenders say we must 0 TM keep at least abreast of other nations in aviation develop- of jt that it divides the execu- New Mexico state Bar ment, and insist that the gamble Will pay Off handsomely tive authority of the state, and tion that opened in Albuquerque in the end by MvWin Jt crl PPles it." today. Scheduled today were TM ir. A v.

ortoin Convention President Bruce talks by federal officials on the These and otherpomts need to be discussed again King of stanley Santa Fe Couil Fajr Standards Act and after a period When the subject has been quiescent. A ty, has been nonpartisan and the Age Discrimination in Em- hasty decision WOUld not be justifiable. fair throughout the convention, ployment Act. Headline: Nixon Expects Inflation Trend to Ease McU tlllCZ Slowly. What bothers some is the implied qualifying phrase, "if at all." Recently appointed as New 1966, he served as Director of Mexico State Hospital's Direc- Volunteer-Services.

From 1966 tor of Psychological Services to 1968 hc hcld the Position ot Treatment Unit Coordinator, was Mr. Etey Martinez. The of Psychological Services STUART R. BBCK PoMisbCr RLROD iilnHiri M. Advertising PRANK J.

IAJC Mech. Foreman Satvrday art at CM ft New Me'xioo, Second class postafe paM Las Vefas, New Mexico. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier or Mail steaHi Three sl.W ffom appointment was made by the pointment, hc served as Acting Hospital Administrator, Mr. Director of Psychology. Thomas J.

Baraett. Mr. Martinez received his Mr. who has been M.S. in Psychology in 1957 from employed at the hospital since Highlands University where he September of 1SB7, has held sev- graduated Magna Cum Laude.

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