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Show Page 10 The UTAH The Paper That Dares To Take Independent August 23, 1973 Who Has The New Image? Grand Larceny Continued From Page 3 2. Majority and Minority hearings be held to ascertain leaders (House and Senate) how a pay raise can possibly this time. at be justified would probably be. .increased from their present The pending legislation has been initiated because in 549.500 per year to 1967 Congress, in one of its approximately $60,000. 3. The Chief Justice of irreworst acts of the Supreme Court a sponsibility, delegated to President the commission and a appointed by him, the power to recommend the p3' of the House ofmembers and Senate, top-flig- ht executives, justices of the Supreme Court and federal judges. The 1967 legislation provided that these recommendations would be made once in every four The years. pending legislation would shorten this to every two years. It would also compel the President to submit his recommendations by August 31. 1973. so that if Congress is forced to vote on the record for a pay raise that vote would come this year and not in 1974 which is an election year. Thus members of the Senate and House those who run for and want more pay are trying to avoid the embarrassment of voting a themsleves pay raise while seeking office. I fought the 1967 legislation on the ground that it was an unholy delegation of power to give any President the authority to recommend the pay of members of Congress: that it violated the constitutional precept of the separation of powers js between the legislative and executive branches of government: that Congress ought to de m o n s t ra te the independence, decency, and responsibility to fix its own pay. I was defeated. Mow President Nixon's hand-picke- d blue-ribbo- commission report, has rhe n made its contents of have not been made public officially but it is believed the recommendations follow these lines: 1. Members of Congress (House and Senate) now paid y42..'fuj a year would be increased to $53,125, a raise r $!).h25 a year ora which 25 increase $10,000 For over twenty Belmont, Massachusetts years, mainland China has been known as Red China. Among the rare exceptions to that rule were the Communist newspapers Daily Worker, Daily World, and Peoples World, which always referred instead to The Peoples Republic of China. Since President Nixon announced his trip to Peking, however, virtually everybody has dropped Red China in favor of the Communist name. The obvious question is: Have the Chinese Communists changed somehow, to no longer merit the description Red? Or have changes taken place in the United States so that Americans are no longer expected to label Communist tyrants for what they are? Just who has the new image? The Chinese Communists established their brutal rule in 1949 and historians have already documented that Maos regime is easily the in all most tyrannical and bloody slave-stat- e history. One need go no further than the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittees 1972 report, The Human Cost of Communism In China , to learn the gory statistics. That report showed that the Red Chinese, with whom our highest officials have now become so friendly, have murdered somewhere and sixty-fobetween thirty-fou- r million of their fellow citizens. The leading butchers, of and Chou En-La- i, course, are Mao Tse-tun- g with whom President Nixon so eagerly fraternized last year. to 572.500 a year, and the associate justices as well as members of the Presidents Cabinet a SI 0.000 increase to S70.000 a year. 4. Federal district judges would be probably increased from their present $40,000 to about S50.000 per year, and Cabinet Under Secretaries by approxi- mately the same amounts. 5. Last but not least, the chiefs of the federal bureaus (the highest paid civil service employees) would probably be increased from their present S36.000 a year to about S45.000. In this category would come the ripple effect for it would mean raises pay will The argument that You cant ignore 800,000,000 Chinese helped to justify the trips of President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger to Peking. It continues as trade is suggested, diplomatic recognition planned, and former ' the reject of the commission and refuse to approve any increases. If pay increases such as prohibitions cast aside. But dignifying and offering legitimacy to history s greatest mass murderers amounts to just that ignoring the 800,000,000 captives of Mao and Chou. Such recognition would consign those millions to additional years of slavery and terror. Consider what might have been the reaction of Americans if President Roosevelt had made a similar visit to Hitler during Nazi Germanys heyday. The legacy of Hitler is filled with the horrors of mass murder, war, and diabolical propaganda. But next to Mao and Chou, Hitler has to be classified an amateur. Mass murder unequalled in all history; promotion of war, strife and discord on every continent; propaganda sinister enough to periodically turn millions of Chinese youngsters into screaming hordes of Red Guards; and the cultivation, production, and sale of deadly heroin for die young who might ' otherwise these are the legacy of oppose Communism the Red Chinese. History can produce nothing to equal such monstrous crimes. Why are we not allowed to know this horrible truth? Who is courageous enough to ask why the press and our government have joined in an effort to change the image of Red China? The killing of one man is murder. But it has been said that the killing of millions is simply a matter of statistics. Obviously, our leaders are ignoring even these incredible statistics. no The Red Chinese havent changed matter how the image-maketry to convince us otherwise. Those who have changed are Mao and Chous new friends, who today claim to speak for America. Copyright 1973 by The John Birch Society Features ur for thousands of civil servants below them. What President Nixon will actually recommend to Congress is anyone's guess at the moment. If he believes in austerity and frugality, as he says he does, he rs recommendations have apparently recommended by commission for are already spending orgies that have generated the inflation that is now eating into the sinews and backbone of the nation. It is now up to Congress, as well as President Nixon, to set the example for an all put war on inflation and the been the approved well-pai- d officials, the government effect upon wage schedules in the private sector wiil be quickly demonstrated and Mr. Nixon can toss in the sponge on price ceilings and any other efforts he may be making to stop the spiraling financial confronts woman the day of To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of especially those who are living on fixed incomes. And it is Congress that has contributed more than to The at hand. reckoning Cong. H.R. Gross Iowa is There is no question but what the pay of members of Congress and other officials of government has been cut by inflation, but that is true of tens of thousands of others across this nation. share and child in this country. intlation. its crisis that every man. which he and abhors is opinions disbelieves sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson see I Senate where another is Investigation starting. This one is to d the Watergate Ervin-chaire- similar hunt for something to vaguely justify the verdict it has already found. Chairman Jackson has already publicly condemned, the people his committee is investigating, who he says made a profit out of the Russian wheat deal. Judges and Senate investigators could save the country a lot of time and money if they would just announce their verdicts instead of messing around with witnesses and due process. Silver Coins Greatest Investment Today Gold Coins Silver Dollars & again. This time their raise is only about 25 percent but their pay scale is getting so high it looks like we might save money by letting these jobs to the lowest bidders. This would save considerable money, with no risk of getting poorer performance, which is already such that the only way it can get is better. 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