The Paper That Dares To Take Page 2 The. Utah Independent September 25. 1975 READERS OUTLOOK The Independent POLICY NOTICE Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, We like to receive Letters To The E3itor. Frequently, however, these letters are much too long for us to use. Far this reason, we are adopting the following policv: 1. Letters To The Editor or should be tped (double-spacewritten legibly on one side of an sheet of paper. 2. We will publish these letters regularly as space permits. We appreciate the fact that some subjects require more length, li such instances they should be submitted as News Articles and will be subject to our regular editorial policies and current needs. News items Musi Be Fully Documented. We want to print ONLY THE TRUTH! Many thanks. Sorry we cannot print your requests for funds.- Morality, and Truth Where the Spirit of the Lord is. there is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 INI KERSHNERS COMMENTARY Dr. Howard E. Kershner The Wisdom of the Founding Fathers As we approach the Bicentennial it behooves us to think once more of the wisdom, devotion and sacrifices our fathers made in order that we might enjoy freedom. Laws multiply by the thousands of tons. They are Legislatures, and the City councils in thousands of our' local communities. Their number is still further augmented by the vast number of rulings having the force of law, that are issued by commissions, boards and regulative agencies established by legislative authority. Tons and tons of laws made by issuing bureaucrats are steadily and increasingly inflicted upon our people to the point where many of them have far too little time to devote to the business they are operating and go down under the weight of volumes of regulations to which they cannot become accustomed before additional tomes modifying the previous ones are received. How wise was Madison when he issued the warning that a mutable policy: poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow'. Law is defined to be a rule of action, but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed? (James Madison, Federalist, No. 53) How significant that Madisons warning, issued more than 200 years ago, is so applicable to our day and generation. Madison, of course, would have been dumbfounded if he could have foreseen even 1 of the proliferation of law and regulatory bureaucratic rulings that are issued from Washington. The whole jumble and jungle of laws and regulations having the force of law are beyond belief. They are the basis for the outrageous spending that has reduced the dollar to a War II value and threaten quarter of its to destroy the remainder of it before we reach the 200th anniversary of the adoption of our Federal Constitution. - BOUQUET TO US!!! Dear Editor: The letter Bright Future in the August 28th issue is typical of many peoples comments today. Must complement you for the true brightness in your answer! Hope you are getting Iowa subscribers as we have and will continue to pass your papers on. A city bus driver obtained a copy, passed it around to fellow workers and when their union meeting date came, the UTAH INDEPENDENT became the all consuming topic that stole the show. Thank God for the watchmen on the tower! , Sincerely. Margaret Sevelin Peru. Iowa Dear Editor: XORTHU'OOD INSTITUTE mm Utah's Largest and 57 Fastest-Growin- Oakland Avenue Independent Salt Lake City . Utah 84115 I I Assorted copies older 25C than months 2 50 for $9.00 Subscriptions: Foreign $15.00 per year 100 for $17.50 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Name 1 (First) Hast) iM'ddie) ill Address (Number And Street) 1 I 25 for $5.00 USA $10.00 per year I each I 12 for $2.75 12 for $1.00 I I I I Subscription Weekly g (Staff) (Zip Codel Are you saying that Q. should we other all and Russia communist states? -- H.E. Emphatically. We no should recognize slave state. Whats a slave state? Any state which does A. its citizens to Not just Jews -- allow not leave. anybody. If Hitler were in power in Germany today, would our government recognize him? He No. was for killing, 3 Jews million (not maybe, 6 million). But Mao Tse Tung is 20 times worse, responsible murdered having an estimated 60 million people. According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Stalin was executing citizens at the Soviet rate of I I Let us put an END to monkeyshines for Europeans. The increasingly open critical remarks by Europeans about our country, and its money being referred to as monkey money" by their should become press, headlines in our papers. Americans would do well to ask What IS monkey money? It means pay in pretty words and empty promises, as did exhibitors of the performing, monkeys with their tricks. If the Europeans can travel to this country, toast and backslap members of the administration at taxpayers' expense who are the monkeys doing the tricks? Everyone knows about the wheat deal' soybeans, barley, and food items going as exports, but when one's granary is empty it's going to be a long hard winter. Promises are long on next year's crop. Our shelves empty, prices high, and still these Europeans play hands across the table for more U.S. monkey dollars they claim are only empty promises. How about the 200.000 U.S. troops and their dependents still in West Germany? The S22 billion accumulated as reserve by the Germans. SI 7 billion held by Japan. France's SS billion, all acover the last 15 cumulated years. .NO. .interest, no value, even undesirable they say? Continued on page 9 you are. In certain mideast countries a caught thief gets his hand chopped off. The second time, he loses his other hand. The third time, since he has no more hands, its his neck. But in America, crime pays big, and the thieves neither necks nor hands. Incidentally, if every caught thief lost a hand, how could politicians shake lose hands? Of all crimes committed in the United States, 98.5 percent go unpunished. Almost 23 of all crimes committed in this country are done by repeaters. About 13 of all persons out on bail while awaiting trial are arrested for an additional offense. and World Report has stated that one U.S. News when Fraudlin D. Russiavelt Russia. And recognized F.D.R.s successor, little I Harry fruman, gushed man in Washington, .D.C. was arrested 57 times in 5 years before he was ever like ol Joe (Stalin). Q. You keep using the One enemy of this country? the liberal press. What do you mean exactly? You pronounced it right, but you didnt spell it right. Its spelled, not The but nation of H.E.W. will destroy us before Russia does. H.E.W. spends SI 20 billion of American taxpayers money each year. Thats $30 billion more than our defense program costs us. The American taxpayer carries on his back 125,000 citizens of H.E.W. These leeches are involved in thousands of programs designed to bankrupt and a 40,000 month phrase, -- Q.E.D. In A. recently revolutionary the police. headlines. Rhodesia black a was killed by That makes An estimated are million now being murdered in southeast Asia. Thats not anti-Communi- sts MONKEY MONEY?' pre-Wor- ld The 1 , turned out in great volume by the Congress, the 50 J HOW COME? d) 8!! By Stand A news. Does crime now pay, contrary to the old saying? -Q.T. A. Depends on where Q. convicted. Q. Who is the Number -- D.M. A. W-H-- O, H-E-- Continued on page 4 LAW OF THE LAND The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the An extravagance appearance of law constitutes the law of the anything you buy that is of land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme no earthly use to your wife. law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, -- Franklin Pierce Adams must be in agreement. It is impossible for , both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows: When faith is lost, when The general rule is that an unconstituhonor dies, the man is dead! tional statute, though having the form and -- John Greenleaf name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly Whittier Ichabod void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstituPURE WATER tional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such DO YOU CARE??? a statute leaves the question that it purports NEW CONSTITUTION to settle just as it would be hadthe statute FOR 76? not been enacted. Since an unconstitutional law is .void, the If you want to see how general principles follow that itfmposes no Regional Government brings you duties, confers no rights, creates no office, to a new constitution for 1976 be bestows no power or authoritjCbrianyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts certain to watch KUTV Channel 2 m performed under it . . . Wf Saturday, September 27 at 4:00 A void act cannot be legally) consistent PM. with a valid one. An unconstitutional law Bates will discuss cannot operate to Betty supersede any''exisl;In8 Regional Government, New valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs Constitution. Land Use and Text counter to the fundamental jawjf.ttie land, it is superseded thereby. wBooks in Utah at that time. No one is bound to obejtjnuncpnstitu-tiona- l KUTV Channel 2 will carry law and no courts are bound! t&jenforce this program Saturday. September 27 at 4:00 PM. Recommend this as Six teen Ih A mcricafoilfisptudcncc vital viewing to all you meet. Si'cond Editiotj, fjkcfion 177 f -