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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT Ed i to its July 23, 1970 Page 3 uflook (Continued from page 2) The purpose, of course, of forcing the doctor to join the medical organization is to extract dues money from him. Given enough yearly dues the organization then can wield power outside as well as inside the structure of the association. As in the case of the Frankenstein monster who eventually turned on his creator, the AMA has now turned on the individual doctors, many of whom involuntarily support it in order to practice medicine. By announcing its support for socialized medicine the AMA is helping those forces which are destroying everything else that has been good in our society. Now, they are out to destroy the highest quality medical care the world has ever known. There is abundant proof of the failure of national health-ca- re programs, yet, as though blind, the pressure is put on to force it onto everyone in the United States anyway. In England, as of 1966, an average of 500 doctors, for the preceding decade, left England every year. At that time the British National Health Service had 750fewer general practitioners than it had five years previously, despite the increase of population. The burden of work heaped upon the conscientious doctor is more than he can bear. As Russell Kirk described it in National Review for November 1, 1966: The damand for medical attention, like many other demands, is insatiable supposing the commodity is free to the consumer. Since the British patient demands service with a frequency he would not think of demanding, did he pay even half the cost of attendance.... Thousands of British people were on long waiting lists for hospital service. Patients may have to wait seven years for treatment of hernias or varicose veins, Mr. Kirk said. The situation is just as tragic in Sweden. In its June 24, 1966 issue, U. S. News and World Report observed: The average patient here finds his situation has worsened rather than improved. It is more difficult for him to get a doctor. He must wait longer to get into a hospital. And he may be forced to leave the hospital before he is medically ready for discharge. The shortage of nurses is acute. Overburdened doctors must turn away thousands of patients annually many of them old people who badly need medical care. Medicare is being referred to here as one of the dark spots in Swedens welfare state.... Whether in Sweden, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, or wherever, socialized medicine has brought lesser care at higher costs. By Tom Anderson AS THE CHURCH GOES . . . Comes the revolution and the fighting in the streets is for keeps, don't forget who is mainly responsible: not the students. The chief culprits, in case you want to go hunting, are the preachers and teachers. Ultra-lefti- st professor Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School, a leader of the Theology of Revolution, brags that a few direction of the National Council of Churches. The Delta Ministry" project, which whipped up racial tensions in the Mississippi Delta, was sponsored and largely financed by the Division of Home Missions of the NCC, according to the minutes from the General Board of the NCC meeting February 1964. The Associated Press has repoited: A study committee of the National Council of Churches has reported that violence is an acceptable tool for use by victims of injustice. Docs this mean that it is acceptable for instance, to tar and feather members of Congress who voted for the "civil rights, bill, and for our present tax laws? On July 12, 1964, the Reverend Eugene J. Boyle, Chaplain of the Catholic Interracial Council in San Francisco, challenged Catholics to support civil rights demonstrations and to 25-2- 8, thousand hard core revolutionaries are moving into key posts in churches, seminaries, and interreligious groups. The Chicago Tribune reported that the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) had donated thousands of dollars to black militant groups throughout the nation." The Tribune article stated that a police investigation revealed that of $855,831 disbursed by IFCO during the past Vh years, 83 went to groups involved in militant or disruptive activities. According to the Tribune, $64,341 in IFCO funds went to the Los Angeles Black Congress, which has taken part in high school demonstrations, walkouts, and other disruptions. $44,000 went to the United Community Organizations in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is similar to the Black Congress. $20,000 went to the Garfield Organization in Chicago. Several officers in the Garfield Organization were charged with conspiracy to commit burglary, arson and looting during the rioting there in 1968. The Chicago Tribune identified the church groups which support IFCO as: American Baptist Home Missions Society; Board of Homeland Ministries of the (United) Church of Christ; Board of Missions of the Methodist Church; Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church; Executive Council of the Episcopal Church; General Board of Social Concerns of the Methodist Church; American Jewish Committee; Catholic Committee for Urban Ministry; National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; and Foundation for Voluntary Service. This is not the first time mission funds have been used for revolutionary activity under engage in civil disobedience. As Dan Smoot has reported: In the early 1960's when Martin Luther King, Jr. was preaching and violently demonstrating civil disobedience throughout the South, men of the cloth from all over the nation Catholic, Protestant, Jew flocked to his banners. The orcountry was treated. to the spectacle-odained ministers marching through southern cities chanting to hell with the law. On Jan. 9, 1967, it was announced that Roman Catholic and Protestant clergymen in New York had invited Saul D. Alinsky to help organize slum dwellers for rent strikes, picketand political agitation. Churches ing, sit-ihave hired Alinsky (with church funds totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars) to organize mob violence in numerous cities. Some of the worst Negro insurrections have occurred where has worked Detroit, Rochester, Alinsky Chicago, for example. Alinsky, a professional radical from Chicago, teaches class warfare in undisguised Marxism language. A top official of the United Church of Christ has proclaimed: Revolution is our business! As the church goes, so goes the nation. American Way Features f ns self-styl- C7L JM, By FREEDOM OR . ed orum Marilyn Manion ONE WORKS? SLAVERY-WHI- CH AMA FOLLOWS FORMULA FOR FAILURE The leadership of the AMA which has been guiding its association leftward over the years, apparently thinks it can succeed by using the same formula for failure with which others have failed. It is our opinion that no matter how many times you throw gasoline on a fire it will make the fire bigger. It is also our opinion that no matter how many limes socialized medicine- is tried it is going to create more problems than it solves. And, whether one throws gasoline on a fire or athealth-ca- re of a nation through sotempts to regulate the cializing medicine, destruction will be the ultimate outcome. It would be easier for Congress to pass a law outlawing sickness than for socialized medicine to work. If, or when, this socialized scheme goes through, we intend to increase our use of health foods to stay as well as is, howpossible for as long as possible. Our fear of ever, not nearly as great as our fear of the socialized medical care and treatment we will receive at the hands of the government employed doctor. - ill-h- ealth ickitick CASH CLEAN-U- Dallas (Tex.) P Times-Heral- d The businessman who tossed $1,000 in cash out of an 11th floor window in Phoenix not only proved his main point that people are money hungry, he also proved that litter removal is a matter of economics. Passcrsby quickly snatched up the bills as they fluttered down to earth and a patrolman noted: There was no litter. If we can make it worthwhile for people to pick up paper, bottles and other debris, we can use money hunger to clean up the nation. Last week in this column, we quoted Mr. Jacques Marcuse, who is a correspondent for In this capacity, he Agence France-Press- e. spent 15 years on mainland China between 1932 and 1964. He was there during the Communist takeover in 1949; he left in 1952 and returned in 1962. Marcuse can thus be said to be a true authority on China something which many people pretend to be but most are not. After his 15 years on the mainland, Marcuse had occasion recently to spend six months in Taiwan. When he spoke over the Manion Forum radio program, Marcuse compared the two societies for his listeners: Staying in Taiwan was doubly interesting to me, because it enabled me to make comparisons and to see contrasts, not only between Nationalist and Red China, but also between Nationalist China as it was 20 years before and as it had become. Nationalist China is frequently charged with being frightfully corrupt. There is some corruption, as in any country, but you can see by the daily paper that people are being arrested. In Red China there were the very bloody, who abortive land reforms of Mao first took the land from the landlords he killed off to give it to the people. He then took it back from the people, organizing them first into properties and finally into peoples communes, where they had no land left to them at all. In Taiwan they had land reform without shedding one single drop of blood. They took land from the big landlords and they compensated them by giving them shares in flourishing enterprises, which had, up to then, been Tse-tun- g, so-call- ed ( run by the government. They these enterprises and gave shares to the disposed landlords, who arc now perfectly happy and flourishing. The land was divided amongst the peasants, who paid for it with a certain amount of the produce of the land, but it was reasonable and moderate. It left them quite enough and, contrary to what happened in Red China, they were free to sell whatever they grew on the open market. The small farmers now own the land outright. There is, of course, no private ownership in Red China. I spent quite some time on the islands Quemoy and Matsu. I lived with the soldiers there,' slept in the same underground caves and in the same trenches. All these people are there because they want to go back to the mainland, they still have friends and relatives on the mainland. And we know how strong family ties are in China. That is one has been trying to do thing Mao Tse-tun- g away with. off-sho- re doesn't expect to retake the whole of the mainland at once. He doesnt expect to start anything before the demise of when it is expected that the Mao mainland will be chaos until a new faction takes over. He wants to land in Fukien Province, which faces Taiwan across the Formosa Straits and where the Chinese Intelligence knows exactly how the population feels, what sort of a welcome they will have there. So there is still hope for the 700 million people trapped on the mainland. Hope, too, for the free nations of the world upon whom the Communists have declared unending war. American Way Features Chiang Tse-tun- g, Kai-she- k |