Stewart
tromps GOP
John Stewart
"I think the voter turnout will be one of the deciding
factors not only in district 41 but in all the counties," stated
John Stewart, Democratic runner for state representative.
Stewart spoke Tuesday evening in the EMU to a rather
small crowd of supporters.
Stewart feels that the Republicans are capitalizing on the
ignorance of the public "which after Watergate is the last
thing to do. The people deserve a voice in their govern
ment."
According to Stewart, the Republican hope for the
upcoming campaign is that the Democratic turnout will be
low. This will help the Republicans to "sneak by while no
one looks. I do not think their idea will work." Stewart feels
that the Republicans are very upset and frustrated with
their party.
John closed with the idea that you have to "let the
people know there is an election 'cause the Republicans
are not going to tell.”
Fundamentalists react
to deviant fairy tales
By DIANE A UERBA CH
(CPS) — “The Three Billy Goats," "The Gingerbread Man" and
"The Three Little Pigs" are not usually considered controversial.
Religious fundamentalists in West Virginia, however, have branded
these children's stories as "pro-violence."
Their objections: there is a bully in the "goats," the gingerbread man
dies in the end, and a color illustration in "pigs" depicts the wolf with
bloody paws.
"We won't stand for violence in ourchildren'sbooksl" says one irate
mother.
Apparently, the fundamentalists will stand for violence in their
children's schools. In their battle to force the removal of 325 book titles
from Kanawha County Schools, the book protesters have recently
dynamited one school, set fire to another and shut down 80 per cent of
the county's coal mines — idling some 3,100 miners.
Since Kanawha County Schools opened on Sept. 3, two persons
have been shot and another beaten in demonstrations; schools have
closed and the streets of Charleston have been patrolled by 200 state
troopers.
The textbook dispute has brought jail sentences tor some or tne more
violent protesters, has forced one school board member to resign and
has thrown the books out of the classroom into the hands of a citizen's
review committee
The review committee has been screening the books and passing
alorlg nonbinding recommendations to the school board. Deadlocked, it
faces an Oct. 25 deadline for completing its work and has received
clearance for fewer than 25 texts.
Following are some of the disputed works
as reported in Scripps-Howard newspapers. In grades one through
six, the textbooks are all in D.C. Health's "communicating" series.
— For second graders the series contains "The Travels of a Fox."
The tale is about a fox who outwits people but in the end is out-smarted
himself. The objection is that it is demeaning to parents because the fox
outwits adults.
— Two more second grade selections are "Jack and the Beanstalk"
and "Pinocchio." Violence and theft are the objections to Jack,
because he steals from the giant and the giant is killed. "Pinocchio"
is claimed to illustrate parental disobedience because Pinocchio
disobeys his creator, Geppetto the woodcarver.
The controversy threatens to continue indefinitely. A fundamentalist
preacher, one of the leaders of the protesters, refuses to accept any of
the books back in the classroom. "There is no compromise," he vows.
The student body president of Charleston High, one of hundreds of
students deprived of English textbooks, counters the fundamentalists'
objections: "I'm mature enough to read something like that and un
derstand it without it having any effect on my mind."
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