The Niles Daily Star from Niles, Michigan (2024)

October 11, 1985

Publication:

The Niles Daily Stari

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Niles, Michigan

Issue Date:

Friday, October 11, 1985

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8

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8 THE DAILY STAR Niles Michigan riday October 11 1985 South Africa wrong nature of the beast JBailj Ltar opinions wrong an intentional thought out even think the good cause carries' his way no meriting value He 2 a 11 211Z11 TT JU Thni self determination and democracy end none of that alters the reality of Demography is destiny for most Americans BENWATTENBERG bilingual education programs for time in our history on the low fertility rate of Suzie and Unlikely The data show that rela numbers of kids to buy them? Who will in iron and steel NANCY ALLEY COP STEVE CANYON RANK THAV6S 10 11 ZWz EEK MEEIOS BUGS BUNNYZ PEANUTS SyndiMNInc SY THE BORN LOSER THE MEETING THE CACTUS CLUB WILL COME TO ORDER 1 A SUGGESTION WAS MAPE THAT WE PURCHASE A COMPUTER TO KEEP TRACK i QUR MEMBERSHIP" uifeNBsr qmity! takes KIDS MAKE EACH OUEL HEY THE MAGIC OIL IS WORKING! THE WATER'S CALMING DOWN' THE SECRETARY WILL REAP THE MINUTES THE LAST MEETING 6QAT SKIM I COMT THINK YOU WANT TO KNOW 202 206 211 230 CLASS UUIU OJT SWHC SLtfc IWW' BLONDIE do rederick Jordan is The Daily Star religion writer 'After the laughter PIEP DOWN WE MAP RERESHMENTS i i i I HAVE THE MONSTER WAITING IN THE BAY BEHIND THE MOTEL PARTY WHO TO TALK WHERE IT WILL SEEM HE IS CVfGlUO HIS GOL BALL Letters To The Editor Letters of under 200 words arernost suitable AH lelfers aresub ject to careful condensation and The Daily Star reserves the right to accept or reject any letter for publication Requests that writers names not be appended to published letters will be respected but names and addresses must be supplied: time has come when solid Christian people people struggling for equality and justice people motivated by love for their country and their fellow humanity these moral people will have to do a great build houses when there are fewer young adults to buy them? Who will pay for the Social Security benefits of the elderly when the numbers of mid dle age taxpayers goes way down? not all Very low birthrates are occurring across the modern world while the population in the Less Developed Countries keeps growing This may change the global balance of power All haranca rioridad tn rnt married later Demography is destiny I AS 5ODM AS I 5Atl MX 1 iHIL NUM WM AM CLASS' rederick Jordan A MOTORCyCuE' GANG IS WHAT ASE HEAPING ORCM? GARDEN) THEV DOING? Africa and in order to end the his country and engage the enemy in clearly evil menace of apartheid peaceful protest He was one will have to swallow hard and imprisoned and eventually hung establishing Spanish speaking en claves in this country similar to what the rench speaking residents of Que bee have carved out in Canada A federal law in 1968 and a Su preme Court decision in 1974 required all local school districts to provide bi lingual assistance to all children whose native language was not English That reform was needed because in many communities the traditional method of teaching English as a sec ond language was a disgraceful proce in it change its character Tutu It enables them to act as they rne tact tnat it was necessary or tor CAMPHILL MERE AT TOR RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB 1400 HOURS' 6 3 I ERNEST Speed of sound The speed of sound is eenerallv placed at 1088 feet per second at sea level at jz degrees ahrenheit It var ies in different temperatures and media Sound travels faster in water than in air In the air it travels a mile in five seconds underwater it does a mile in one second It goes even faster evil And because they allow for such games those who are willing to give it all up for have something i have meaning a language that has right and wrong a guideline for people too willing to take the definitions into their own hands The world keeps its objectivity its fences its importance And the Bishop has to throw himself and his cause onto the mercy of God literally There is no justification for him no earning HOW ABOUT A fcCMUiue 6QAJ5KW BLAZER? blatant wrong In a similar situation another great church leader participated in the same kind of wrong The the end then who is to condemn? name was Dietrich Bonhoeffer a German theologian who left the WITH YOUR JET LAG I MAY BE ABLE TO BEAT YOU OR THE IRST TIME "anyone living in the United States who is unable to speak English cannot fully participate in our society its cul has been abused in many communi ture its politics" ties Until recently for example some Throughout the first two centuries California school systems maintained of this country's existence waves of rigid exit criteria that kept students in immigrants from scores of nations bilingual education programs for readily adapted to that reality by be longer than was necessary coming proficient in English as well In other instances students and par Demography the study of popula tions is often seen as a prosaic af fair A birth A marriage A death Ev eryday events But demography is destiny And a demography sets a destinv It was in fact a or ap Example: A new Census Bureau re proach that dumped hapless young im port shows that American women are migrants into classes witn native corn students and expected them to simul taneously master both the subject matter and a new language without any special assistance The federal law emphasized a tran sitional approach in which non English speaking students are in theory educated in their native Impact the difference be tween Mary Jones who gets married at 20 and Suzie Smith who gets mar ried at age 23? Well Suzie is much more likely than iviarv to vet some college education and much more likely to start a seri ous career mat surely a tug plus But what are the further effects of this trend? One big change concerns the birthrate Most demographers maintain that delayed is fer tility Think about that Suzie a college educated working woman of 23 gets married During the next couple of years until about age 25 she An independent newspaper published daily Monday through riday afternoon and Saturday morning at 217 ourth St Niles Michigan 49120 by Niles Newspapers Inc 616 683 2100 trustworthy loyal HELPUL PIENPLY ciNr CtittuU THgiTT ANP ALL AT war There is no right way no right answer no clear consciences here Imagine it A Bishop is saying the or a few nights this week the evening news was blessed with an absence of stories on the violence protest and turmoil in South Africa It stopped but other stories calamities and hot spots superseded it in importance Earlier in the week a man who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his non violent protest against the atrocity of apartheid in South Africa Bishop Desmond Tutu seemed to turn from his steady non violent course He warned that time for a peaceful revolution may have run out for many are thinking as he is that a violent war might be the lesser of the evils one of which will inevitably come to pass The good Bishop is saying something radical and it just a turnaround from peaceful protest to violent conflict It is far more radical than that He is saying there safety of the United States during is no right way to turn around South the second World War to return to Africa and in order to end the his country and engage the enemy in By Robert Walters stantial numbers of Hispanics antici pate eventually returning to Puerto WASHINGTON (NEA) Listen to Rico Cuba Mexico or other Latin Miami Mayor Maurice erre describe American nations national headway Then Suzie has a baby At age 27 or 28 she and her hus tion will start shrinking for the first band mav decide to nave a second child But is it then likely that Suzie Among other things as time goes will want a third child? Even if her on the low fertility rate of Suzie and husband helps but does she really her friends will profoundly chahge al want to be changing diapers in her most everv business in the nation early 30s? Making it even more diffi What happens to the baseball glove quit for her to rejoin the work force? business when there are diminishing The good Rev Bonhoeffer and the they risk everything If there is any good Bishop Tutu play such stability there in 20 or 30 years any linguistic gymnastics and because self determination and democracy they there is some integrity and prosperity it will be due to a left the language Wrong is still wrong Killing is still an evil War is still hell Danny Dean President and Publisher Dave Hoger Managing Editor Duane Arnold Production Manager Pol 1 I Smith Advertising Manager Robert Taylor Head Pressman Hal Shue Classified Manager red Senger Composing Room oreman MISTER! MISTER! uzMATJ thpvvp anr I rtnni CHAMP IN THE BAY I coming proficient in English as well In other instances students and par as in thein native Dutch German ents have been antagonistic toward rrencn itanan roiish or Chinese Many Hispanics who have come to this country in recent decades howev er have been considerably more resis tant to assimilation Unlike earlier immigrants and refugees committed everybody who believes that na to establishing this count as a per is an important con manent new home for themselves (and cept not merely a meaningless phrase often their extended families) sub in the pledge of allegiance to the flag percent! tively few young couples these days plan three or more child families With few large families the birthrate Waa 1 aAa aaoti a aa All Aaaa naa piuuniicieu ai a uvw di an an uiut: IUW aUUUl 10 UII11UICI1 MCI WUIlldll As the age of marriage rises rapidly which is what the new Census data show is happening it becomes un likely that the birthrate will rise any time soon: So what? So because of Suzie and her husband and a lot of other young couples like them millions of babies be born who would have been bom otherwise Those babies who arrive become kids they become adults And according ly in the next century (if present rates change) the American popula that got him hung It was his alliance with those who plotted to kill Hitler Somewhere in there the a good cause or worked out in the man of peace took a great risk He Language is no longer un i tyi ng 'melfi ng pot getting married later Here are the prosaic numbers: MEDIAN AGE MARRIAGE OR WOMEN ft55 1965 1975 1984 Census estimates go back as far as 1890 The current age or marriage is the oldest ever recorded And it is go ioE STEVE GENERAL GOL YOU BRENNAN AN ME il i I ip miracle the ability of God to wrench life out of death and meaning out of nonsense Dietrich Bonhoeffer knew with pride how many Hispanic resirtrawc Others are separatists rwho envision pick updUiequally vilmenace2of his peacefulprotestssss'wTheifact that they were involvedithat ebility'OfsGodj' as does Bishop cents oi nis city manage to spend their entire lives in this country while re maining totally immersed in another culture: can beborn here in a Cuban hospital be baptized by a Cuban priest buy all your food from a Cuban grocer take your insurance from a Cuban bank can get all the news in Spanish read the Spanish daily paper watch Spanish television listen to Spanish radio You can go through life without naving to speak isngiisn at all What erre mention is that dure euphemistically known to educa Hispanic elementary and secondary tors as scnooi students can oe taugnt exclu sively in Spanish during their entire 12 years public schools under the guise of receiving a Ours is a nation proud of its ing tradition but until recently the one element unifying its millions of people of disparate heritage has been its common language English As a task force of the Twentieth Century und noted two years ago language while gradually becoming UUClll III XIJKllbll uiv viumi miu at a in practice however the concept Up an accelerating rate nc hoan nhncarl in mzinti wnat ooes it mean a tnree year in crease from age 20 to 23 may not sound like much but it is a big change and it will have a mighty impact Change: Not very many women in America can or would get married be stays on the job and makes some occu xore sav aae 1 ur 10 inai means English language instruction even that a few decades ago the typical though young children have an ex woman after reaching a somewhat el traordinary ability tb comprehend igible age waited only two or three aosoro ana master new languages years to get married But today she That initiative merits the support of waits five or six years to get married ao me numoer oi years mat me typi cal woman stays single prior to mar riage has gone up by about 100 GOING 6CMT SKIN I CWT KNOW put his belief his faith his life on tH line and crossed over for the sake of his belief his faith and his life ITrtrtitnfliolv few nt lie will ha nut in positions where we have to act when it is all finished They still contrary to what we oeiieve tor tne sake of what we believe Most people face that trauma and if they do they will simplify it Good old situation ethics will come in there that easy stuff that says do what you gotta and OK Who can question it? 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