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Show f Page 8 UTAH INDEPENDENT October 30- - 1970 A Letter of Great Importance To All Thoughtful Citizens -- By Clarence E, Manion , Former Dean of the Notre Dame Law School that will simulate a telescope and put it to your "mind's eye." Now slowly sweep it over the far horizons that surround the U.S.A. When you have come full circle , put down the telescope and Pick up something look closely and critically around yourself. Look at our churches , our universities and at our criminal courts. Then look in your daily paper for such headlines as these: COURT KIDNAPERS KILL JUDGE 230,000 GET HIGH ON DRUGS AND MUSIC AT ROCK FETES DAD BUYS BACK DAUGHTER FROM HIPPIES BLACK PANTHERS WILL SUPPORT VIET CONG NIXON COMMISSION URGES SOFTER PORNOGRAPHY LAW WHITES AND BLACKS BATTLE AT CAIRO (ILL) NATIONAL GUARD ENDS OHIO RIOT BREZHNEV URGES REVOLT IN WEST denominator of what you see everywhere is crisis; wholesale moral disintegration blending with bitterly hostile fo'ces furiously facing each other. Observe too that "Big Brother" Brezhnev is watching. He knows that the critical trigger for the big supersonic "boom" is right here in the U.S.A. The diabolical forces that planted these revolutionary booby traps in strategic corners of so many free nations have timed all of them to FOLLOW the big blast in this country. to They will be sure that we have no opportunity safely that take place elsewhere and thus sit out revolutions be free perhaps to exploit simultaneous trouble behind the Iron Curtain. The Reds refuse to believe that we are actually as dumb and as naively blind to our own as self-intere- st they may be expected to hold up any really serious fireworks in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America until they see the big explosion take place in this country. we appear to be. Consequently, What they wait for could easily happen here next week, or next month, or it could be postponed indefinitely. It is thus up to us to start cr to prevent the big holocaust that would burn every last remnant of Western civilization off the face of the earth. There is nothing haphazard about this critical danger that permeates the world today. It has been arranged here and in every other free country by people acting under professional direction. When the time comes, these people will be told exactly where and how to spark the big fire that will then consume the world. in creeps a sputtering, fuse, the crisis upon us closer and closer by the hour. iike So, The common slow-burni- For our effective preventive action, time is of the essence. How much time we can borrow will depend upon the high rate of popular interest that we are able to generate and pay promptly to the root causes of our mounting peril. Everything depends upon our ability to start and keep a constantly swelling stream of truth flowing to the millions of patriotic Americans the big Americon majority which is "silent" precisely and only because it is uninformed. The tragic possibility citizens is double-edge- d: and blow up, over Only three weeks ago, in an "analysis" of the news for radio, Alexander Kendrick devoted all of his time to blistering ridicule of President Nixon for having said something nice about a John Wayne movie. CBS To get the stern truth running in all directions, patriots must forget the networks and zero in on hundreds of independent radio and television outlets which cover the country and have plenty of time available for those who are able and willing to pay for it. But to make the truth effective, regularly recurring, authoritative programming is essential. for these millions of our fellow (a) Their beloved country around them before they even may hear about the planted dynamite, or (b) They may all awaken reaction, proceed to suddenly and in a violent, knee-jer- k tear the whole clique of traitors and incendiaries limb from limb. For the continuity of freedom, the second alternative would be as bad as the first. There is yet an orderly way for the patriotic majority to assert itself and resume control of the country, but to employ it these millions must get the stark truth along with their political marching orders NOW. Nixon could and should give them both and at once, as President Kennedy was finally forced to do at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. But, unfortunately, the President is all but completely insulated now e liberal conciliators, while he is flanked with in the Senate by the axis. All of these (s) innocent doves, political parrots and prothonotary warblers would fall from their high pragmatic perches in a state of shock if, for instance, the President would deign to explain to the American people what Brezhnev said about them at Lenin's 100th birthday celebration. President Forum's particular "dish of tea." Como next October 3, we will have been doing it for 16 years, IF WE ARE STILL "AT LARGE" AND FINANCIALLY This ABLE is the Manion TO DO IT THEN. From Senator Joseph McCarthy, through Senator Goldwater, right down to freshman Congressman but postgraduate conservative Philip Crane and the redoubtable Cong res; woman-to-b- e Phyllis Schlafly (Republican candidate), the Manion Forum has been projecting, coast to coast, the voices of hundreds of able, articulate, freedom-lovin- g Americans who couldn't get a dozen words in "edgewise" on any one of the big networks. From hard and continuous experience, we have learned more about this one than anybody in the particular medium of "truth-castincountry. soft-lin- The Kremlin itself has announced all this in so many words. For instance, celebrating Lenin's 100th birthday in Moscow last April, Brezhnev, in a 3'z-hospeech to 6,000 of the Soviet faithful, including leaders from other Comur munist countries: victory of Confidently predicted the world-widcommunism and urged Communists in Western countries to be prepared to use violent and illegal means for the overthrow of capitalism. He said that in the U.S. a new political situation is taking place which Communists there must be prepared LEM.VS EXHORTATION THAT to exploit. COMMUNISTS .11 VST BE PERPARED FOR THE USE OF AX Y FORM OF STRUGGLE. PEACE-FUL OR UXPEACEFUL, LEGAL OR ILLEGAL, IMPORTANT TODAY , IS PARTICULARLY said. B'j Frank Star. Chief of Chicago Tribune Moscow Burccn Moscow Dwur.icit, Apr. e . Bre-.hn- er 21 Everywhere in this country the unwitting minions of Moscow ore suiting their actions to Brezhnev's words. Throughout their continuous exploitation of crime, bombings, riots, mass obscenities, pornography, campus violence and flagrant aid to North Viet Nam (treason, that is), our "experts," including presidential commissions, ccme up regularly with excuses for everything, and effective remedies for nothing. j 2 Z 2 of of veteran ABC newsman Howard TV Guide (Feb. K. Smith, published 6): 28-Mar- " The Sew Left challenges America. Theyre rewriting the history of the Cold War. Some carry around the iVet Cong flag. Some shout for Mao but they are not . . . They've become irrational irrational. as Reporters describe them portrayed students had as our children. If the right-winstudents have done, everyone, done what including the reporters, would have called in the police and beaten the.r heads in. But we have a bias now that has 30 years of momentum behind it. in outlets right now. But, unfortunately, we are $100,000 short of enough money to continue to pay for those we have. For better or worse, our creditors appreciate the importance of what we are doing, and seem to have a confidence in your willingness to bail us out and keep us going. After all, somebody always turns up to "bail out" convicts like Jery Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and Dave Dellinger so as to keep THEM on the air. comforting Can patriots afford to do less for the Manion Forum? After all, we are the only voice that is continuously available to the Silent Majority. Yes, we g left-win- g are praying because we do need Goa's help and yours. Gratefully and hopefully, as ever, left-win- g THOMAS JEFFERSON, ONE OF THE GREATEST That nation which is least governed, is at Z Concerning the hard truth potential of the dominating news media, nothing needs to be added to what Vice President Agnew has so well and truly said about them, except perhaps to recall attention to the frank admissions For the sake of truly good Congressional candidates this fall, the Manion who are up for election and Forum should make at least 300 selective additions to its LIBERALS OF ALL HISTORY SAID: governed best." Clarence E. Manion . jS place economy omong the First and most Important virtues and public debt at the greatest of dangers. To pre- serve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion end servitude. If we can prevent the government from westing the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence which In private life would for- bid our paying money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money." end again he said: In questions of power, let no more be said of confidence in mman, but bind him down from mischief, by the chains of the Constitution. p I 'mrrrrtmrtrtTtTnrTtTnmnnryt mmn irrrrmmii c-- ;,; it A Public j C C j ttmtmmmmitRtTmmmTrmTmmmm Ideals I n.onnous powc. Tin Greek ideals hare had a power of m l.t.ow in,, a si.iukbess anii soj:ters in ally came over the Greeks to irerrhi'n. '. ci ud sn iity. i comfortable life, mid they lost all ' n i !n.'iieiir;i in ns.' George Suucyaua. :Lc philoiopher, said, I ration that does not know r C persistent life for 2.500 years. But we need their rum. In the end, more than they want-rsecurity, comfort and freedom. Is not that d history is fated to repeat it Service Message Paid for by Adam Patterson, Jr., Huntsville, Utah |