PAGE 2 THE HERALD THURSDAY JAN. 25, 1979

EDITORIAL

EDUCATION FAILS AGAIN The Educational system of the United States has another strike against it. In the last few decades it has turned out a large percentage of students who are deficient in reading , writing and math skills. According to a recent survey, it is also failing in giving students a knowledge of American business and the free enterprise system. A national survey by the U S Chamber of Commerce and the Opinion Research Institute of Princeton University has revealed most 'students don't believe in the need for profit, don’t think we have competition in American business, think the government has the responsibility to provide jobs, were in favor of government ownership of banks, railroads and steel companies and thought the federal government contributed most to the national prosperity. It is probably not unusual that they think this way. They are taught by government employees whose salaries come from the taxes paid by the free enterprise system, but these teachers have not had to operate within that system in recent years. To stay in business, a businessman and his employees must produce a product people want at a price they will pay. The field of education seems to care little about producing a good product (students who can function in the outside world), as their salary and their job does not depend on doing so It is not only sad, but disheartening, that these students see so little value in the free enterprise system which made our country so successful in terms of form of government, way of life and social programs. Most of the advantages these students have had are due to the very system they consider unnecessary Many politicians (whose own money came from business endeavors) are guilty in leading the gullible to think only government can solve all the world's problems. If this is so, we would like them to start on the Postal Service, and go on from there. LETTERS

Dear Sirs:

I am writing this letter in reference to a matter which greatly concerns me - the Planning Board’s recently adopted Master Plan. As I understand this plan calls for the construction of a walking mall in the area which is presently 21st Street. Anyone looking closely enlugh at this proposal can readily see its shortcomings. In closing the street the borough would merely create more problems than it would ever hope to solve. Families would be uprooted which have been long standing member of this community. Normal traffic flow would be interrupted. The cost to the taxpayers would be astronomical - yet this plan would seem to benefit but a few. How many gift shops, dress shops, pinball arcades and ice cream parlors can this town conceivably support? I'm afraid this “mall”- would simply become another haven for vandals. If we cannot keep a Christmas Tree standing on the circle what can we expect this mall to look like in six months? There is no guarantee that these businesses will be successful enough to remain in long standing operation - 21st Street could possible become Marlyn Manor’s sister skeleton. Gentelman, my family’s business has existed on 21st Street for 45 years and I would hate to think its future could be endangered by so frivilous an idea as a walking mall.

Having been bom in this community and lived here for over 80 years, I can remember no time when Avalon needed gimicks to attract tourists to its beaches. At my age I would hate to think that my legacy to my family would be a gas station in a walking mall. Please reconsider all aspects of this plan before official action is

taken.

Yours Truly, Frances S. Phillips SCHOOL ADDITION To the Editor, I read with considerable interest your VIEWPOINT article in the January 18 Herald about the Avalon School Addition Poor Timing. As a matter of interest to you and the taxpayers of Avalon, I am enclosing a copy of a letter I sent to Mr. Harry Clayton, President of the Avalon School Board, dated November ,16, 1978. You will notice as spokesman for the Officers and Trustees of the Avalon Home and Land Owners Association, I expressed some of the same misgivings you have about the magnitude and the timing of the proposed school expansion and financing with a new bond issue. Mr. Clayton has not responded to my letter, but after a telephone call to him announcing our intention to release to you my November 16th letter, he invited a member of AHLOA to sit on an advisory committee headed by Mr. Richard Pedroni for the purpose of reviewing the proposals of the School Board for expansion. We will be pleased to do so when we are called to attend a meeting or meetings, but we will be ever mindful of the admonition of your statement in VIEWPOINT. "This is not the time for any taxing authority to add to taxes for possibly desirable, but unnecessary expenditures." Sincerely, Thomas J. White, Sr. RETARDED CITIZENS NEED YOUR HELP Letter to the Editor: As the New Year begins, I would like to t akeythe time to thank you for the coverage you have given to your unit and its services. Gaining community acceptance and support thru a better understanding of mentally handicapped is our number one purpose and goal. Cont. to Page 6

LAST WEEK IN CAPE MAY COUNTY THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF AFFAIRS BOYD & WOOD

In NORTH WILDWOOD, the stormy weekend weather caused a 67 foot fishing vessel to run aground on the beach while being towed by a Coast Guard Cutter ... In SEA ISLE CITY, Carl Epstein, former director of the Academy Education Center, a school for troubled juveniles, pleaded guilty to charges of receiving stolen merchandise ... In WOODBINE, Democrat Mayor Thomas Levin and the mostly Republican borough council are again at odds over the budget, Levin asking for one that would freeze amount raised by taxes to what it was in 1978 ... In SEA ISLE CITY, Mayor Dom Raffa a asked that the county share in paying for critical beach erosion projects ... In LOWER TOWNSHIP, the state Department of Transportation is completing plans to redesign the dangerous intersection of the Ocean Drive, Parkway and Rt. 109 ... In WOODBINE it was disclosed that 3 unlicensed physicians from the Philippines are practicing medicine at the State School for the Mentally Retarded ... In MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, officials are investigating seepage from the landfill after neighbors have complained of the disappearance of wildlife populations in the last few years ... In LOWER TOWNSHIP, a 67 year old man was allegedly bludgeoned to death by his wife, who called police after cutting her own wrists ... In CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, former Representative Charles Sandman was found guilty of slander ...

CAPE

MAY COUNTY taxes to go up 11%...in CAPE MAY BEACH might get $80,000 for a restoration project...IN CAPE MAY COUNTY, the freeholders agreed to support the MUA with a $50 million bond. ...

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