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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 1977 Page 4 The Utah Independent February 24, CLICHES OF SOCIALISM Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvington-oHudson, New York -- n of a devotee private free market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic cliches. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced many a spokesman for When property, freedom. Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the Giches of Socialism." These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty that are the only effective displacement for the empty promises of socialism. But everyone else doing it. is Ever hear of a man named He was the Saint Augustine? fellow who lived many centuries ago and who, after he became a Christian and saw living in a new light, wrote a book about the transformation that had taken place in his thinking. In it he revealed a great deal about human nature. Augustine had a lot of wild oats to sow in his younger days and he pursued this task with great diligence. After all, everyone was doing it" in his society and he couldn't see bucking the trend and missing all the fun. Once in a while, though, an uneasiness gnawed at his mind, so he would attempt to pray, 0 Lord, make me pure. But then a vision of his latest heart throb (clad in a Roman bikini) would flash before his eyes and he'd hastily add the words . . . hut not yet." have heard several speakers lately whose words remind me just In a bit of Saint Augustine. essence, here's what they said, Sure, we may disagree with the direction our society is going, particularly with the fact that more and more people are turning over I their responsibilities to government. Whether its tagged socialism, the welfare state, or any other label, is beside the point. If thats the direction the majority wants to go, why should we butt our heads against a stone wall? Shouldn't we get aboard the bandwagon and take advantage of the situation instead of slipping behind the parade? IDAHO LEGISLATURE RESCINDS E.R.A. Congressional Record Hon. Steven D. Symms of Idaho: I am pleased to announce to my colleagues in the Congress that on Tuesday, February 8, 1977 the Legislature of the State of Idaho voted to rescind its previous ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This action by the Idaho Legislature is a victory for the women of America, for if the E.R.A. should become operative, women in our society would in all likelihood be reduced to the same status as men. Make me pure and stalwart. 0 Lord, ... but not yet. Not until I have gotten mine and am too old to give a damn any more. Help me preserve the freedom for which my ancestors shed their blood . . . but not if it means accepting a weekly wage below that of the electrical workers union! Help me see the values of the incentives of a competitive society One of the most hidebound,1 is income each where knee-jer- k. persons leftist racists in the determined and by ability United States is the negro columbut work . . . for to willingness nist Chuck Stone of the I have until sake not goodness Philadelphia Daily News. That achieved parity, and legislation has paper typifies what is going on in been passed that guarantees equal the City of Brotherly Love, incomes for all! wh ich has become a center for a cliThou knowest, O Lord, that I que of INTERDEPENDENCE long to bequeath my children a fanatics, of ONE advocates land of opportunity without the WORLD GOVERNMENT, with necessity to purchase the right to YOU, reader, to be a Soviet-styl- e produce, or obtain permission to citizen-slavbut these enter an occupation Stone is among those adessential are for the vocating letting deceased negro things certainly if own Paul present emergency my cup is commie-sympathiz- er to overflow. of hall Robeson into the football Guard me from the fame: and the glorifying of people temptation in the future to cut like Alger Hiss, communist traitor open the golden goose of our free out of jail after a perjury enterprise system for a few golden sentence and one of the framers eggs. . . but trouble me not about of the charter of the disunited my present carving activities. I Nations. One could take fifty news subpray for the inner stamina whereby 1 is firm for what right, may stand jects, and if each should have a its of popularity at the regardless left and a right" position, or but not until my net angle. Stone would be on the left moment worth is adequate for financial fifty times. Illustrative of what 1 have just independence, and especially not I until have qualified for benefits said is his Jan. 25th column headed from programs financed at public James Baldwin Implores Jimmy expense. Thou art so remote, and Carter to Help Free Wilmington 10 sometimes heedless to my please, and Charlotte 3". but my Great White Uncle in Lets check Stones angle". is ever to In Washington eager return, Wilmington, N.C. ten people, to all those who cooperate, a nine of them black, were convicted port ion of that which he has taxed of firebombing a grocery store from them. during a 1971 racial disturbance inThe record of humanity, involving one Rev. Ben Chavis. the Book cluding especially Stone goes on and on over the inspired by Thee, tells us that the allegation that the trial was unfair. We all know that nowadays upward thrust of mankind has been led by men often unpopular the criminal, not the victim, gets with the crowd. Thy prophets and the flood of liberal tears. Stone will Thy Son called upon us to seek never mention the black mobs, truth rather than what is merely shown on TV some years ago, expedient called us to dig deep burning cities, racing through the beneath the surface of living, streets loaded to the limit with seeking to understand and to make loot sometimes several of them a part of ourselves those things of lugging a television set. He doesnt Grant me the mention that in 1973 this gentle lasting value. courage to risk the derision of my spirited" (Stones words) Rev. neighbors in the fight for what is of Chavis was involved in a murder lasting value, even if it costs me to trial, and the militant network do so. . . but not yet." rushed Angela Davis, communist Gordon Conklin headline maker, intoWilmington, followed by the yellow press, where she hung around for the purpose of influencing the trial. Why should Arithmetic is one thing, innocent, saintly Rev. Chavis call but logic is something else on a notorious communist for again. help? The teacher gave this Stone shows his dispeptic problem to her class: racial fixation when he writes If there were six flies on and witnesses Manipulating your desk, and you killed is a commonplace pracevidence one, how many would tice against blacks in southern remain? courts." That got my dander up. One, shouted a boy; Stones every biased thought about the dead one. an individual case will be colored to the Utah Independent 12 Assorted Back Issues for ONLY $1.00 oooooooooooooooo Estate Liquidation Small parcels of farmland with water 75 miles to Salt Lake City shares (801)466-496Terms Speaks Out e. ... ... DISCRIMINATORY CONCEPT OF THE SOUTH. It doesn't matter to d Chuck that emissaries from Boston visited Charlotte, N.C. to see if they could learn how SOUTHERN CHARLOTTE managed to handle bussing better than NORTHERN BOSTON. (I sympathize with both cities.) by and tax Psychiatrists collectors agree: it is not good to keep things to yourself. A an Communist Anti-America- could be but n, his Stone-minde- kind of an American he could be. thats the only As for the convicted Charlotte 3" arsonists, the oooooooooooooooo FRIENDS ADVERTISING A Conserative The things most people want know about are usually none of to their business. George Bernard Shaw EXPOSE YOUR CLASSIFIED Charlotte 7 f 4 I Top market prices A ft A Trading 227 West 600 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 7 Phone (801) 531-645- left-wi- ng Observer, under 7 j What on earth would a man with himself if something did do 7 , not stand in his way? & I . G. Wells 2. E. P. THORNTON oooooooooooooo the direction of white Reese Cleghorn (now transferred to another Knight newspaper in Detroit) has for years been trying to get them off even deviling North Carolinas governor for pardons but seldom mentioning the racist negro organizations which egged on the Charlotte 3" to violence. What about Reese Cleghorn? He came to the Charlotte Observer from the far left Atlanta Journal. His teacher was his boss, editor Ralph McGill, deceased, whose bleeding-hea- pro-commun- ist MINI-CASSI- SECURITY ASSOCIATION POSITION Dear Editor: The members of the Mini-Cass- ia Water Security Association reject, in total, the scheme of American Falls Reservoir District-Idah- o Power Company for the replacement of the American Falls Dam. It is the position of the members of the Water Security Association that it is the duty and the responsibility of the Secretary of Interior and the United States rt record is documented in the Biographical Dictionary of the Left. Cleghorn was so saturated by the teachings of mentor McGill that 8 years ago he wrote a booklet in which he defamed STYLE conservative every prominent voice that spoke out against liberalism, socialism or comHe even blasted the munism. The honored Paul Harvey. booklet was sponsored by the SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL and the AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE. How the two sponsors connect is not known to me. American Opinion magazine for February pointed out that the Southern Council, Regional Atlanta, was partially funded by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, and founded with the help of COMMUNIST JAMES E. JACKSON, editor of the Partys DAILY WORKER newspaper. That brings us to James Baldwin, worshipped by Chuck Stone. Baldwin, says the Biographical Dictionary of the Left, is a putrid minded, foul mouthed radical writer, preoccupied with sexual perversion, and his hatred of Christianity, America and its customs, and white people". Bill Buckley calls him an eloquent menace. would not devote a column to a local negro columnist, except to open a door through which you can glimpse fellow travelers" quoting and promoting each other, and echoing the white southern I hater of a century ago, the Lincoln-hatin- northern under Government SOUTHERN RADICALISM: WATER A g politician Thaddeus Stevens, who favored harsh treatment of the defeated South, and confiscation of the See most enplanters' lands. cyclopedias, especially the World Book. Thaddeus Stevens, Ralph McGill, Reese Cleghorn, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Chuck Stone. Will the haters never hush and give reason a chance to do a better job with the difficult piecing together of the mosaic that is America? Have just a few copies of booklet. Cleghorns Xerox the of Stone Yours, plus and Baldwin's column, record, for about a dollar stamp fund gift. Write 6 F Arcadian No 1, Myrtle Beach, S C. out-of-pri- nt Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you cant build on it; its only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield the Reclamation Acts of the United States and the contracts executed by each of the irrigation districts with the United States, not only to operate and maintain the dam, but to rehabilitate or replace it if necessary. It is also the duty and the obligation of the United States under the Reclamation Acts to develop the hydroelectric power facilities available at American Falls Dam and to apply the revenues from the production of hydroelectric power to discharge and pay all costs of construction, maintenance and operation of the American Falls Dam and its related facilities. Therefore, the Mini-Cass- ia Water Security Association demands that the Secretary of Interior and the United States perform its resgovernment ponsibilities and duties under the contracts and the Reclamation Acts of the United States in repairing, rehabilitating existing or replacing the American Falls Dam and in the development of the hydroelectric power facilities at the dam. James L. Fenton, Chmn. Recently a friend of mine who served ably and faithfully for 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives stated: The socialist course of this country can be only changed by Congress. There are two there the problems last few Congress, the years, has become a bureaucracy 17,000 itself, having who employees, really run the thing rather than the 435 members. He further stated: Even if the right kind of men were elected to Congress they would have a rough time taking back control from their employees. They would first have to turn back to States and their subdivisions the are that powers rightfully never and should theirs, have been usurped or surrendered. - -- Harold T. Pultz No how matter successful you are in life, the weather will determine the turnout at your funeral. -- Edwin Reynolds |
