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Show T i Page The Utah Independent February 17, 1977 8 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand THE PEOPLE MUST RISE Lincoln Warned Us Not To ERA Attacks the Family by John F, McManus AcBelmont, Massachusetts tivity in behalf of the controversial Equal Rights Amend- ment has heated up in recent months. Its proponents know that time is running out for them, as the Amendment has to gain ratification by of the state legislatures before March 1979. As the battle intensifies, additional sound arguments for defeating it continue to pile up. In any discussion of ERA, it is vitally important to realize that the proposed Amendment will not gain for women equal pay for equal work, bank credit, or educational benefits. These are already covered by existing two-thir- ds federal law. What ERA Will Do On the other hand, an understanding of what ERA will do is even more important. It will, for instance, destroy existing labor legislation designed to protect women, because it will void any law that makes any distinction between the sexes. It will invalidate present marriage and divorce laws, opening wide the door to desertion and of wives. And it will create such legal chaos that the courts may well be blocked for decades. In addition, legal scholars have begun to assess the hitherto widely overlooked impact of Section Two of the Amendment ("Congress shall have the power and they now to enforce . believe that ERA will bring about a massive transfer of power from the states to the - federal government. That isnt all that ERA will do, however. It will also make women eligible for future draft and front-lin- e combat duty. In no one can predict all of fact, its consequences because the measure is so horribly vague and non-suppo- rt .) . ' One more frightening consequence of ERA has been predicted, but has received virtually no attention. It is potentially more destructive to the family than all the other effects combined. open-ende- d. In her April 19, 1975 column, MONEYSUCKERS: Sylvia Porter discussed this OR LAND PLANNERS ramification of ERA. She wrote: The homemaker would Copyright Jo Hindman 1977 Social contribute Security taxes During the Kennedy ad- - "Metro desks" in government. like other just any ministration a revolution Today no one has had time to clasperson now covered. started in which federal sify the breed. . . . The Equal Rights AmendIn trying to ferret out some bureaucrats began getting back ment, when finally passed, will control over the land which early sense, someone asks, "Where does require it. American government, had t he money come from to pay for all self-employ- Mothers Self-Employ-ed What this means, of course, is that the person who has always been known as housewife, homemaker, and mother would immediately become classified by government as a self-employ- ed hired hand. Proponents of ERA, who obviously want such an arrangement, have concluded that the average yearly wage for a homemaker should be set at $10,000. The Social Administration Security in- forms us that, at present rates, Mom would have to pay $790.00 per year for benefits she is now eligible to receive by virtue of her husbands Social Security payments. It would be hard to devise a more significant attack on the family. How would most families meet this extra burden? You guessed it! A high percentage of the nations homemakers would be forced to find a job. Many would, of necessity, have to put their youngsters in the government child care centers that are sure to follow should ERA become law. In the process, the family would be weakened, the government would gain addi- tional power, and the nation would more closely resemble the Soviet Union or Red China, where women already enjoy equal rights. ERA is extremely dangerous. In many states, it was passed before anyone really knew what it entailed. Since its consequences have been aired, support has declined, as it certainly should. The good sense and respect for tradition held by most Americans has begun to prevail. ERA should be permanently rejected. I 1977 The John Birch Society Features HOW COME? parceled out to homesteaders to insure quick development of the infant nation's natural resources. In 1963 Robert C. Weaver, a administrator federal said. Originally developed this nation bv offering people absolute control over wide areas to facilitate the rapid improvement of the land. Now we arc trying to recover control of the way land is used so w'e can achieve a proper type of development of our urban areas and of our whole country. Our current objective is to secure the open space we need both for urban and rural recreation, to protect wild life, to promote conservation and to eliminate scatterization. Thus we have to get hack control of the use of land most of which we have we already given through government to people" (page 81 in BLAME METRO by Jo Hindman re: RCWs speech at Haverford College, Haverford. Pa. May 2. 1963.) Almost fifteen years later, naive persons assert that they see nothing wrong in the Feds getting control over land use. If such people have no objection to having land uses changed under their very own feet and their land taxes driven upward, then of course theyll not object to government inspectors, appraisers, assessors and enforcement officers flooding into private premises to enforce controls. Communist governments own the land outright. Here in the United States, landowners are stripped of their land use control but are required to keep on paying land taxes. Colleges and universities have been training droves of certificated urban and planners and rural specialists. Many lodged in commercial planning firms, even more in government positions. In Weavers day some occupied the so-call- ed Why is the new Congress planning to vote itself a wage increase this Q. year when it refused to do so last year -- F. K'.. Walnut How Q. our can government get the cost of living under control ? - L.S., Zarephath, X.J. Grove, Ms. A. A. Because last year was an election year and this Only by getting the of government under control. cost should the oil barons and the private power magnates control our energy supplies. The government should take 'em You are a over. reactionary, or worse. PS., Dixon, year isnt. The unions own ana control a big percentage of our and Congressmen Senators, bought and paid for. unions are Many I Yet n. was reading the other day about some union bringing before its something Ethical Practices Committee. laugh? Ain't that a -- S.A., Paris. Tn. A. Ha ha. Reminds me of when the late John L. Lewis was told that the Ethical Practices Committee of the A.F.L.-C.I.O- three The question springs a Pandora lid somewhere off in distant Wash.. D.C. The grant money does doesn't all come from one source, taxpayer-one-sourc- c excepted. The money does come from the taxpayers totally. But it has many faucets, spigots, channels of release. A whole empire of bureaucracy has sprung up to tell opportunists how to get to the grant money and which faucets to turn. of The comptroller-generthe United States. Elmer B. Staats, al described the mix" of federal assistance: categorical grants, block general revenue grants, and sharing: 975 programs administered by 52 federal agencies reaching an estimated S52 billion outlay in 1975. The functional area of "health" alone is split into 230 individual programs spread among ten federal agencies (Staats speech to federal Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations). For those not graduated from the college metro courses, seminars arc being held around the country $295 tuition plus $50 regis- tration. Anyone can attend the two-da- y seminar "Understanding and Obtaining Federal Grants" sponsored by New York University's School of Continuing Education. The seminar in Wash., D.C. took place in December, the 1977. next is in Chicago Feb. Certificates of participation are awarded, the tuition is tax deductible, the classes are held in conveniently located hotels. The mailing list which the university used to spread the seminar news was bought from a taxpsupported gocrnmcnt agency, the Law Enforcement Assistance Agency' w (I.EAA) hich claims to be a crime fighter. 7-- 8. Q. My Congressman tells me he, too, has a hard time making ends meet financially. Do wc pay our Congressmen enough? -- J.S., Chattanooga, Tn. 111. A. The average cost of Q. crime-ridde- this planning?" . had spent yak a lot about of federal aid. How much does the federal government spend on aid to, states and local governments? -- B.W., Reedy, W. Va. along with practically all other shortages, except of morons like you, are not prevented by government but caused by government. As for Meany. theres no fool like an oil fool. President Johnson over the first 'si 00 presided billion budget. Our current deficit may he as much as Johnson's first total budget. What has happened to this Q. A. The annual total is now about $56 billions, up 700 percent since 1959. There are approximately 1,000 different programs, many of which overlap. Federal aid means federal control. He who pays the fiddler should call the tune and does. - in closed chambers. He sent them this "Have message: you discovered ethical any practices yet? days You the "evils Q. A. Our energy shortage country justify he people have been seduced by Big Brother. We are becoming a decadent, amoral, bankrupt, welfare state. A. I agree with George who Meany the says should take government over the oil industry. Why Q. to go vern men t expendi I ures five times greater than they were a few years ago'' L b.f.. Provo, Vt. I maintaining in the our Congressmen style to which theyd like to become is $488,000. accustomed Two years ago it was only S376,000. Did you get a thirty percent increase in the past two years? -- American Way Features Trust Our Leaders Reprint from Women's Voice When the people rise enmass in behalf of the Union and the liberties of this country, truly it may be said, "The gates of hell cannot prevail against them. In all trying positions in which I shall be placed, my reliance will be upon you and the people of the United States; and I wish you to remember, now and forever, that it is your business, and not mine; that if the union of these states and the liberties of this people shall be lost, it is but little to one man of fifty-tw-o years of age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all the coming time. It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves, and not for me. I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with presidents, not w ith office seekers, but with you. is the question: Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generations. Abraham Lincoln February 11, 1861 FRIENDSHIP Socrates once built a house, and everybody who saw' it had some fault to find with it. "What a front", said one. "What a neighborhood", said another. "What rooms! Not big to in! said the turnaround enough third. Small and humble as it is", answered Socrates, the sage of all the ancient Greeks. I wish I had true friends enough to fill it." GOALS m student came into the university presidents office inA quiring if he could not take a shorter course than the one prescribed by the university. "Oh. yes, the president but that replied courteously, depends upon what you want to make of yourself. When God wants to make an oak. he takes one hundred years, but when He wants to make a squash. He takes six months." St ory teller 's Scrapbook Price controls, whether voluntary, if effectively enforced would lead to the eventually legal or destruction free-enterpri- se of the system and its a replacement by controlled centrally system. And it would not even be effective in preventing inflation. offers History ample evidence that what determines the average level of prices and wages is the amount of money in the and not the economy greediness of businessmen or of workers. -- Milton Friedman Figures Recently Released by the Associate of Life Underwriters of Washington, D. C., reveal an amazing statistic. For every one dollar reaching the needy, the sick, the d hungry, the aged and the is cost the the church, through eight cents. one dollar By contrast, every reaching the same people through voluntary charity organizations costs an average of 27 cents. 'I h rim el i Federal distribution, the same one dollar reaching the same people costs three dollars. What else needs to be said? under-privilege- The Rivermont Presbyterian Church |