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Commentary
Editorials
1980 census recount
The decision on the 1980 census handed down by
U.S. District Judge Horace Gilmore last week has im-
portant implications for cities and states, and a quick
and accurate recount is needed to avoid further com-
plications.
In his decision, Gilmore ordered the Census Bureau
"to adjust population figures for the 1980 census at the
national, state and substate level and to adjust the un-
dercount to prevent the undercount of blacks and
Hispanics, as well as whites."
Although the judge did not specify how much the
figures would have to be adjusted, one of his law clerks
said the adjustment would add at least 5 million to
U.S. population figures.
Gilmore allowed the bureau 30 days to determine
the means by which it will correct the figures and ex-
tended the deadline for submitting the final population
reports to the president, if the corrections cannot be
made within 30 days.
This could cause problems for Texas, with its bien-
nial Legislature, if the recount figures are not available
by April 1. If this occurs, the Legislature would have to
be called into special session to redraw congressional
Sex education in schools
After nearly two years of planning, the Dallas
Independent School District approved a pilot program
last week to include sex education in the curriculum of
20 schools.
In the proposed program, a three-week course
would be taught in the fifth, seventh and high school
grades as part of its required health instruction. It
would be available only in schools where parent
leaders have requested the test program, and students
would participate only with parental permission.
Topics would include purberty, reproductive
anatomy, veneral disease, birth control, dating and
parenthood.
The DISD Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet
today to decide when to implement the program and
which schools will participate.
The district began working on the program at the re-
quest of community members who were concerned
about the high rate of teen-age pregnancies in Dallas.
A commission composed of business, church, school
and minority groups was formed to examine the
problem and proposed an "education for responsible
parenthood" program, including sex education, for
DISD.
The district acted wisely in seeking a solution to the
problem, one that most schools would prefer to leave
to parents. DISD Superintendent Linus Wright sum-
med up the feelings of many educators when he said of
the Dallas program, "We're not in this because we
want to be. I wish the church and the home would as-
sume that responsibility, but they're not."
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Change in seasons reuiues
early childhood memories
Autumn made a tranquil appearance
last week into the agitated, nonequinoc-
tial frenzy of my life.
Never was a season more welcome or
its arrival more subtly ceremonious.
Anticipation of the first few days of
cool, crisp air had me eagerly watching
the summer sky and the fumbling
forecasts of homebound weatherman
Harold Taft's noncommittal substitutes.
Karen
Clark
As I walked along dusty streets to
school or across brown grass to the bus
stop (depending on how late I was to
class. When I am late I walk.), I
remembered kicking through sweet-
smelling, fallen leaves on misty-morning
walks to school when I was in grade
school.
When I was younger, autumn was
never something I had to wait for. It
came without question or delay with the
beginning of school. It brought a world
full of wonderful, warm colors to match
my new loafers and my corduroy
jumpers.
However, for unexplainable reasons, I
have spent the first four summerlike
weeks of this semester impatient for the
sense-tingling stimulants of fall.
Perhaps it is because I felt deprived of
a spring this year when a forceful winter
quickly transformed into a blistering
summer, leaving very few days rich with
the vibrant odors of spring for walking
through parks or along riverbanks to
ponder springtime events.
For whatever reason, my senses were
in sharp tune with the nuances of each
day's weather last week as I carefully
distinguished the hot, humid summer
morning air from the crisp, cool, misty
mornings I awaited.
When autumn did not appear at its
appointed time, Sept. 22 at 4:09 p.m., I
abandoned my vigil, expecting a sim-
mering summer to become a wearisome
winter sometime in November, depriv-
ing my dulling senses of the rejuvination
of fall.
Ah, but nature she is a whimsical
mother. She came quietly in the night
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Wednesday, October 1, 1980
districts to account for any changes in apportionment.
Gilmore noted in his ruling that four times as many
blacks as whites were missed in the I960 and 1970
counts, and testimony in the suit before Gilmore in-
dicated the bureau expected the same undercount in
the 1980 census.
Reactions to the ruling by officials of Texas cities
varied but contained a common theme: If they are not
satisfied with the recount they will file suit.
San Antonio, 56 percent Hispanic, already has filed
more than 100 challenges to the census, claiming a
severe undercount that could affect federal grants.
Denton has a special interest in the case and is ex-
pected to file suit within two weeks. Because the
preliminary census report puts Denton's population at
44,103, Denton officials found the city was not eligible
for several federal grants and programs available only
to cities with more than 50,000 people.
Because such crucial issues as revenue-sharing
grants to cities and equitable voter apportionment de-
pend on an accurate census count, the Census Bureau
should do whatever is necessary to resolve the situation
as quickly as possible.
Parenthood shows 35 percent of Dallas 17-year-olds
are sexually active, 1,700 students in DISD already are
parents and Dallas children as young as 11 are having
babies.
Dr. Noman Gant, chief of obstetrics and gynecology
at Parkland Memorial Hospital, said last week that
half of the 9,200 deliveries at Parkland each year are to
teen-agers. South Dallas and Oak Cliff have one of the
highest teen-age fertility rates in the nation, a represen-
tative of the Texas Association for Services to Children
said.
The primary aim of the program is to give teen-agers
factual information about sex and to provide a source
other than peers for answering their questions.
Critics of the program contend sex education should
be taught at home and that teaching it in the schools
usurps parents' rights to teach moral values to their
children.
However, the program would allow parents to
review the material to be presented in class and allow
them to opt for a home study program.
Sexual education is better left to the parents, but, as
evidenced by an increasing number of teen-age
pregnancies, that responsibility is not being carried
out. The program is designed to provide teens and pre-
teens, who are not getting sex education at home, an
alternative to learning about it from their peers, which
usually results in distorted or inaccurate information.
The DISD program is a well-thought out one that
includes participation by a broad spectrum of the com-
munity and options for those parents who do not want
sex education included in their children's curriculum.
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Religion slants politics
Writer explores humanism
"Reverend Fulgood, anyone watching
the news for the past four months is
bound to have heard about the rise of
the New Right, for which you have
become the most well-known
spokesman. For the benefit of our
readers, who may have heard of the
coalition but not about it, could you
start by telling us why is there is New
Right."
"Well, Mr. Christianson, when moral
Christians in America like myself look
around today, what do we see but a
society characterized by planned
parenthood, the pill, no-fault divorce,
open marriages, gay rights, test tube
babies, women's lib, unisex, day-care
centers, child advocates and abortion on
demand? Men no longer are responsible
for their families; women don't see the
need to honor and obey their husbands.
God has been kicked out and humanism
enthroned. We're tired of this.
"WE WANT to see a return to the
older, time-tested values and a belief in
God that were once the moral fiber of
this country. The best way we see to ac-
complish this mission is to get men
elected who believe what we belive."
"Isn't this mixing religion with
politics?"
"No. You don't see me running for
office do you? That's not my calling. But
what is my calling is to get God off the
shelf and back into the hearts and minds
of Americans.
"People accuse us of trying to legislate
morality. But look at the liberals,
they've been at it for years. They're still
at it trying to get the Equal Rights
Amendment ratified and pushing for the
state-supported murder of unborn
babies.
"WE CAN'T sit idly by while our
children, our neighborhoods and our
country turn into a compost heap of
degeneration and depravity. But don't
get me wrong. We support the separa-
tion of church and state. We want in-
fluence, not control."
"You oppose abortion. How do you
reconcile this with your support of the
death penalty?"
"I don't see any problem."
"WELI, AREN'T they ultimately the
same thing, the taking of a human life?"
"No. They're completely different. In
the one case you're talking about the
taking of the life of an innocent unborn
baby, and in the other case your talking
about the just punishment of a
murderer."
Bill
Christensen
"Leviticus 3:17 says 'an eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth.' If a man came into
your home, raped and killed your wife
and daughter just for kicks, don't you
think that man should die?"
"I don't know. I'm not sure one
human has the right to take the life of
another. I mean after all, people make
mistakes. Would you want a jury that
might well have one of those 'immoral'
homosexuals you detest so much on it
comdemn a man to die?
"And as long as you're quoting Bible
verses, what about Matthew 7:1, 'Judge
not that ye be not judged.'"
"Well Mr. Christianson., I'm sure
even you'd agree that you have to make
a decision sometime. You can't simply
suspend all judgment indefinitely."
"That's true."
"You know that's the trouble with
these humanists: they can't tell the dif-
ference between right and wrong. They
don't know how to live their lives."
"Rev. Fulgood, because our space is
limited, I'm afraid we'll have to move
on. Why don't we talk about your stands
on secular issues, such as Israel and
Taiwan. What have these got to do with
religion?"
"Everything. They may seem secular
on the surface but they really have a lot
to do with religion.
"IN T HE past the United States was a
sort of policeman that kept the world
free and safe from oppression, but to-
day, look at us. We vacillate, first this
way and then that way, and our allies
haven't the slightest idea what our next
move will be.
"Our old friends Israel and Taiwan
must truly despair when we undercut or
dump them just because it's convenient
or expedient. We as Christians, people
of dignity and compassion, can't just
stand by and let this go on."
"Finally, Rev. Fulgood,
about you. You're quite a
man. You have your own
broadcast gospel program
ministry is destined to be the biggest in
the country. You have a salary of $40,-
000 per year, and you live in a 12-room
mansion, donated by a wealthy church
member.
"YOU HAVE an expense account,
free life insurance and a private jet to use
on church business. My question is:
don't you think this is a bit extravagant
for a man who is supposed to preaching
the spiritual over the temporal?"
"Well let me say first that although
my ministry does bring in a lot of
money, we also raise millions of dollars
every year to help feed the starving peo-
ple of Africa and Asia. But no, I don't
think it's extravagant, God blesses those
who put him first."
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last Tuesday and cast ominous autumn
clouds over the sky.
My walk to class Wednesday was
melancholic, and it was not until I
looked through a window traced with
condensation that I realized my mood
was caused by the sky's subtle heralding
of fall.
All day I watched the lulling transfor-
mation of the seasons. By evening, as I
walked across campus, the smells,
sounds and touch of autumn played
through my alert senses. It was the kind
of evening I wanted to spend observing
the delicate effects of fall.
For the next two days, autumn strug-
gled vainly to consummate its arrival
with a fresh pouring rain.
Finally on Friday the rains came and
with them came the promise of a sense-
exciting autumn.
Saturday, the rains continued, and
autumn greeted me again with cool 55-
degree weather, a blue-gray overcast
sky, geese in flight over Dallas' White
Rock Lake and a breeze that hinted of
the sweet fragrance of soon-to-be-falling
leaves.
Autumn has arrived bringing welcome
change to my sun-weary life.
64th Year
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