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Show May Utah Farm Bureau News 1972 Looking TheUnited States greatest contributions to the liberation of men is its agricultural production. This achievement is rooted in the Constitution the United States, one of the most important documents ever prepared. It establishes a government that provides citizens the opportunity for individual growth and individual development. A crucial decision in the implementation of the Constitution springs from the Hamilton-Jefferso- n debates. From that hotly contested struggle, Jefferson introduced to the world a new concept of land stewardship and ownership. He proposed that the nations vast land resources should be disposed of to a broad base of citizens. The established world powers ridiculed the fledgling new nation. They advised the U.S. to retain its land areas to finance armies and navies. Only the Constitutional designers seemed to have understood the wisdom of private ownership of land. This one decision did as much as any other single act to set in motion processes by which men might climb the ladder to achieve freedom. It gave to individuals responsibility and the opportunity to be- successfully independent. It created a seedbed where the principles of the Masters parable of the talents could be tested by a nation of people. Men and their families hewed out farms and homesteads from raw land, resources and set about to make them productive. Contrary to what many believe, the United States is not a nation of great natural or mineral resources. The Founding Fathers were inspired men. They tapped the greatest natural resource of any nation. They released human resources. Through the principle of private ownership and stewardship of land, individuals dared to venture, to risk and to break the bonds of serfdom and the European traditional caste system. While many failed and it was often the second or third generation of farmers who succeeded in making the farms economically successful, the sum total of the successes and failures was increased wisdom and production. The accumulative results of these many individual experiments, as citizens searched to be successful, is the basis of our greatness. This was a bold, new adventure in human endeavor and it paid off. The United States now leads the world in agricultural success. From this base of a secure supply of food, we have built industrial, social and economic achievements that make us the envy of the world. Today, less than five percent of the citizens of this nation work on the farms and ranches to produce the food and fiber needed to feed and clothe 200 million citizens. We also export approximately 14 shiploads of agricultural products each day of the year to the hungry people around - the world. Now the United States faces another great decision relative to ownership and stewardship of land. The final conclusions will have a dramatic bearing on whether the United States preserves its agricultural productive capability. No single act would be more valuable to the enemies of the United States than to destroy the agricultural production capability which this nation has achieved. There is abroad in this land today groups of citizens who call themselves conservationists. They propose concepts of zero agricultural, industrial and economic growth. They demand we discard most of the principles which gave Americans the highest standard of living in the world to adopt a credo of stagnation. They falsely believe such as approach will improve mans living environment. Fundamental in some of these new conservation leaders program-for-chang- e is the uprooting of Americas private ownership-of-lan- d concepts. They say that people accept public control of air and water resources as important to all citizens. However, any suggested change from private ownership of land or proposals to alter land control is labeled as communistic and socialistic oriented. The designers of a greater world offer a limited-ownershi- p concept that man is only a trustee of the land resources and holds tide subject to the rights of society and future generations. Agriculture has practiced principles of conservation of land for many years, not only for philosophical reasons, but also because land management experience proves land exploitation is a shortsighted objective. Modern ranch and farm practices are designed to build land resources for tomorrows crop, as well as for future generations. No one can quarrel with the concept of orderly growth and the wise use of our land and resources. However, the concept is selfishness in its purest forms. It would freeze the status of millions of people who now live in poverty or in substandard conditions in this nation, with no hope of change. h would mean to the youth a dreary outlook with no of the opportunities afforded past generations. Zero-growpromise nation while the rest of would reduce America to a third or fourth-clas-s the world forged ahead. h Man will is In the universal order of things, continue to evolve and grow. Lawmakers at all levels of government should recognize for what it is: A social time bomb which should be defused before it produces incalculable damage! To live boldly as the founders of this nation proposed, holds the hope of finding new approaches that preserve private ownership of property. The realistic will innovate processes by which citizens will continue to risk and venture into the fields of insurmountable challenges. Some will fail, but all will have the dignity of honest effort and again our nation, the world, and future generations shall be the benefactors. A cornerstone upon which the economic, social and cultural superstructures of Americas great achievements rests in its agricultural pro kiction. The basis of that production miracle is the unique land stewardship ami ownership concepts which this nations founders established. If these principles can be preserved, the future of America is secure. If they are lost, America and the world will tumble back to an agrarian society. Hopefully, at some future date man may again dare to be free. zero-grow- th Zero-growt- th zero-growt- non-existe- nt. zero-grow- th THE AUTHOR Leonard H. Johnson, assistant director of the AFBF natural resources department, is a veteran of 1 8 years staff service in Farm Bureau. He primarily serves natural resources interest in state FBs west of the Mississippi. He is a Brigham Young University graduate with an economics degree. 1 P Stewardship of Land Ahead Dr. George S. Benson President NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas k i TWO VIEWS OF THE COMMUNISTS t, Senator J. William Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose views on international Communism and foreign policy have largely been ignored by the Johnson (Democratic) and Nixon (Republican) administrations, has written an illuminating article in the current New Yorker magazine. Because of his normally powerful position and since he has been a leading spokesman anti - Communism against and perhaps the most prestigious dove during the Vietnam war, his philosophic views as expressed in his 12,000-wor- d article, should be known to Americans who do not read the New Yorker. Says Mr. Fulbright: Since doctrine" was the Truman with the dispatch established, of American troops to Greece to help prevent the Communists (according to President Truman) from taking over Greece, American foreign policy has been warped by an obsession. "One wonders, he says, how much more might have been accomplished particularly in the field of disarmament if Americans had not been caught up in (Sen. Fulbright has long opposed Ful-brigh- anti-Commun- ist in might have perceived statesKhrushchev a world man with whom constructive business could be done. Says Mr. Fulbright: But for the American intervention, the Vietnamese civil war would at inhave ended long ago finitely less cost in lives, in a money and property nationalist Communist victory under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. Only in the context of the assumptions of the Truman Doctrine (that the Communists seek to dominate the world) could the Vietnamese war ever have been rationalized as having something to do with American security of American interests . . . Ho, adg in fact, was a revoluAmerican mirer of the tion, of Lincoln, and of Wilson . . . and his (It seems strange if Mr. Fulbright doesnt know the Truman Doctrine can be well documented any year from the declaration of leading Communists). life-lon- ts "Men We Could Respect I susSays Mr. Fulbright: and Khrushchev pect that if not had the Mao and Ho had name of Communist we might have recognized them as men we could respect . . . (From A History of the Ukraine published in Moscow in 1943: With the arrival in the Ukraine of the close comrade-in-arms of Stalin, N. S. Khrushchev, the eradication of the remnants of the enemy and the liquidation of wrecking activities preceeded parHisticularly successfully. torical documents show that Khrushchev ordered put to death hundreds of thousands of Ukranian kulaks, small farmers who resisted Communist seizure of their land. From Page 3 Eugene Lyons Khrushchev The Killer in the Kremlin (Readers Digest, Sept. 1957) "The infamous prewar blood purges reached their goriest climax in the Ukraine. g A example of the Khrushchev-Sero- v terror came to light in the Ukrainian town of Vinnitsa: 95 mass graves containing nearly 10,000 corpses. The victims were fully dressed, their hands bound behind their backs, bullet holes in the nape of their necks. From the fact that their mouths were full of earth, experts in such matters were able to confirm that many of the men and women were still alive gasping for breath when they were hurled into the graves. Khrushchev was Staman during the lins right-han-d extermination of an estimated 40 million innocent Russians; Mao Tse tung is charged by the U. S. Government with having executed more than 25 million Chinese; and Ho Chi Minh, according to War Department files, with killing millions of North Vietnamese citizens.) But through eyes here were statesmen worthy of blood-curdlin- Ful-brigh- ts We need some one to work during coffee breaks. m. Disarmament? (Note: It is not our purpose here to debate Mr. Fulbright. However, we feel an obligation, in the public interest, to quote the following, from a recent analysis by Dr. Stefan T. Possony, Director of International Political Studies, Hoover Institution, Stanford University: "In 1968, the USSR had a total of 600 ICBMs, including less than 100 SS-9the heaviest missile in the Soviet arsenal. By the time the first round of SALT (disarmament) talks began, late in 1969, the Soviet long range missile force had grown to 1,200 ICBMs. During the second round, in 1970, some 100 more Soviet ICBMs were added. Each time the U. S. got together with the USSR during the third, fourth and fifth rounds, the Soviets added their customary 100 missiles. The longer we talked, the more missiles the Soviets built. At present the USSR has nearly 1,600 ICBMs including 300 144- - 143- - acres 7 miles South of Bonners Ferry. This has a nice fishing stream and some timber. Ideal recreation property and priced at $12,000.00. Call Warren. 80 e Presents a nice 3 bedroom summer home on 5 acres at Crouch. This gold medalion home has a beautiful view of the Payette River. The price is $34,500.00. Call Lee for further -- details. s, 142- - 1 45- - ST l0a 1 fitting business? Home, horses, saddles, rubber boats, you ask for it Jerry has it listed on this profitable operating business. 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