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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 6 The UTAH Independent April 26, 1973 FOOD INTERNATIONAL STAMPS TO AID NORTH VIETNAM by John R. Rarick, Representative of Louisiana April 6, 1973 I was amazed recently to hear the presidents of three national farm organizations openly advocate U.S. trade with North Vietnam. But that's what happened during hearings before the House Committee on Agriculture the Law 48 Public extension of international food stamp program Food for Peace." The president of the American Soybean Association, claiming to speak in behalf of 24 national, called state and regional farm requested that organizations, Congress remove any restrictions on trade with Communist countries, including Cuba and North Vietnam. We should, he told the Congressmen, permit sale of to Communist commodities... countries which are friendly to the States... United Presumably, since the North Vietnamese Reds are now smiling about the $2.5 billion committment they extracted from the President, they are suddenly friendly. The American Farm Bureau Federation's president, claiming to represent the views of the more than 2,000,000 member families, his group favors says that exporting Americas food to"any country that is willing to pay the price..." He added that he thinks that most people in the United States u ould be happy to be a part of this humanitarian gesture. The president "of the National Association of Wheat Growers, whose members provide the breadbasket of America, testified: We think that there should be open and free trade with all the Communists." He includes North Vietnam in his equal rights so-call- McManus, national director of public relations for The John Birch Society, asserts that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a dead duck." In a statement, McManus notes the Societys role in defeating the in Utah, North amendment Carolina, Arkansas,, and North Dakota and says that the ERA also appears headed for defeat in nine other states. This means, barring resubmission and change, that the amendment has been blocked," he says. Its a dead duck. Only 29 of the necessary 38 states have ratified the proposal so far and it is in trouble in the other 21 states either because it has been rejected by one or both state legislative houses or is bottled up in committee. Proponents of the ERA have until 1979 to obtain ratification. According to McManus, the Society opposes the amendment because it attacksthe very concept of the family, including women's privileged status as wives and is The amendment mothers. misnamed. It's not for equal rights but for equality. Wiping out laws in 50 states that made a distinction between men and women would be chaotic." (Earlier this week, the voters of Wisconsin, a state which has ratified the ERA, rejected a state equal rights for women proposal bv a vote of 482.877 to 419.937.) spokesmen would have Congress believe that the American farmer wants to provide aid to rebuild North Vietnam, by selling on credit or giving them American food. Theres no mistaking the fact ask any that food is money housewife who has recently returned from the supermarket. Providing the North Vietnamese with billions of Communists in American food is no dollars different from giving them the actual dollars. And old-time- rs remember when workers in the U.S.A. were proud of their craftsmanship and the world bought our products because they were better. That was in the old dead days when people got their pay raised or made more profit by doing a better job or offering better service. Nowadays, workers, from Congressmen to janitors and on up, get paid according to union pressure political clout. But, of course, a lot of us would go hungry these days if we got paid only what we are andor worth. D.E. SCOTT Crossroads, U.S.A. rights: a. If we all are to be equal, then the first thing to be done is equalize the pay scale so that we'll all have equal wealth or poverty, like they do in Russia and China. Naturally of course, if we all receive the same pay well have no need for labor unions b. No preference will be given any individual or group, including: (I) veterans in government and private employment, (2) Seniority status and benefits given labor union members, (3) Special benefits given to certain business, farm, and welfare industry, recipients. c. You will be told what job you can take, where you are to live and quite possibly who you can marry. Everyone has to be equal. All persons will share equally (or as nearly as possible) in the bad and unpleasant jobs and living areas. d. Military and combat service will be required of everyone no Its provisions matter what their status or age at implemented. stipulate that all citizens will have time of induction (forget the equal rights. In order that the volunteer army). Why should any can ensure and person be exempt from combat if government enforce equal rights for everyone we all have equal rights? e. All parents will be told how they will have to have complete control over your life, equal rights many children they can have and also mean equal property if our after they have them, theyll be present welfare system is any medically fixed so as not to exceed indication. In essence, what we will that specified. Everyone has to be have controlling our lives is equal. f. All schooling will be equally Dictatorial Socialism. Naturally, this wont happen over night, but poor. Curriculums and facilities will take several years or decades. We will lose our freedoms so GET THE DONT GAMBLE gradually that too many people will not be aware of what is Food Reserve happening. Here are some of the Backed By Research things we can expect with equal Dear Editor: Once again the American Citizen is being sold a shoddy bill of goods under guise that one segment of our society is being deprived of their rights. The bill of goods 1 speak of is the Equal Rights Amendment. Those grand masters of deceit, the government in Washington, would have you believe that the only purpose of the Amendment is to guarantee equal rights to all the women in our country. It wont stop there however, as- history has so admirably proved.. We will get more than we bargained for. By the time the lawyers (ACLU), the courts, and the Congress (re-reSec. 2 of ERA) have finished messing around with this law like they have done with the laws in the past, its announced intent (to give equal rights to women) will no longer be recognizable. 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These will be the same ones that enjoy unequal rights in Russia and China, the government leaders. I am fully cognizant of the fact that there are elements in our society who believe that all or part of these conditions are right and proper, that a socialist-dictatorshis the only mankind. all for Nothing thing truth. the from further be could been has mankind The history of obtain liberty one long struggle to and justice for all. Free agency is a right ordained by God to all man. Nowhere in the Holy Scriptures is equal rights promulgated. The framers of our Constitution did not advocate equal rights for all because of its inherent evil, but they did proclaim liberty and justice for all. I urge all citizens of this fair land, who, like me, are afraid of the Equal Rights to write their Amendment, national and state senators and congressmen and urge them to repeal this act before it deprives us of the freedoms and liberty we have so long enjoyed. Sid Watts Kaysville, Utah See and Taste the Best farm ed OUTLOOK Continued From Page 5 The Equal Rights Amendment Reprinted from The Review of the News. April 18, 1973 John F. Belmont, Mass., April 6 doctrine. I think that these don't statements represent the feelings and attitudes of the American farmer. They are certainly not the w ishes of the farmers of my district or State. In national opinion polls, the American public has made it clear that it opposes aid to rebuild North Vietnam. these Yet, READERS ERA A Dead Duck will be the same all over, we all have to be equal. Parents will have no say in how their children will be 1050 Main Avenue Durango, Colorado 81301 ; . i |