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Show The Paper That Dares' To Take A Stand Page 10 The UTAH Independent June 7, 1973 STATE SENATOR JOHN L. Problems is quoted as saying: "In most of the big city murders, either the victim or the killer had been drinking before the crime was committed." And the President's Crime Commission: "The California in 1971, nearly 5,000 figures show that crimes people died in traffic accidents. of physical violence such as Another 240,000 were injured, cuttings, carrying of concealed many beyonc repair. Again, in weapons and assaults are over half the cases, alcohol was triggered by drinking." And there are the burdens to a factor. As a member of the Senate Select Committee on taxpayers. Governor Volpe of Laws Pertaining to Alcoholic Massachusetts is quoted as I found the saying in 1965 that alcohol is Beverages, prime causative factor in testimony given by experts the 1 4 of that State's welfare costs before that Committee d of the mental revealing and alarming and and in admissions. often just plain sickening. The illness Wilfred Commissioner of is immense. alcohol problem New of The heartache, the physical and Bloomberg Jersey mental suffering, the carnage, stated: "Mental hospitals admit the broken families caused by 8100 patients a year of which alcohol are heartrendering. Let roughly 3300 are due to me share with you a small part drinking alcohol.". On April 2, 1973, the of the testimony. The Committee was told that Congressional Record carried in some jurisdictions alcohol is an article from the Milwaukee a factor in 80 of the Sentinel describing a project of disturbances that must be two reporters there. They quelled by police. Wife beatings discovered that bartenders kept and family fights take up a a box at the bar forfood stamps, substantial proportion of law bus tickets and welfare checks. enforcement's time. A 1969 These had been traded for study in Grand Forks, North drinks at the bar. "There's a lot Dakota, showed that 78 of the of action here," said one separations of husband and bartender as he showed the wife were alcohol-relateWho reporters a Welfare Department can calculate the number of Voucher that he had cashed for innocent children whose lives $25.00 worth of drinks. are warped and twisted as they WHY DOES IT HAPPEN? is a Permissiveness" watch these things take place in we word use to describe how their own homes? some people deal with their California Supreme Court children and how some judges Justice Stanley Mosk was deal with the criminal. But the quoted as saying: "More word could well be applied also juvenile crimes have been in the alcohol context. In committed under the direct or discussing alcohol-relate- d indirect influence of alcohol traffic fatalities. Commissioner Pudinski of the California than any other influence. Eighty-fiv- e percent Highway Patrol said: "...this sad of the 17,000 minors under statistic will continue to plague custody of the Youth Authority us so long as various elements got their start from of society, ranging from his drunkenness." Yet there are neighbors to the courts where those who still advocate that the he appears when apprehended are too lenient with him. drinking age be lowered. We were told that in 1964 the Therefore, I beleive the only National Council on Alcoholism solution is for society to expel reported that the cost to the drinking driver... .to proveto industry of alcohol abuse him that his conduct is so was ten billion dollars. The unacceptable to other people cost to employers in our state is that he is destined to be an estimated at between $2 and $4 outcast until he truly reforms." billion. Who foots the bill? You POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: do and do.. .in higher prices for Many have been tried-- some successsfully. In a future goods and sevices. Dr. Richard Blum of Stanford newsletter I will discuss some of and the Institute for Human these. Meanwhile, we must Each year roughly 55,000 killed on our nation's are person highways- - not by handguns but by faulty automobiles or drivers or both. In well over half of these fatalities, alcohol is a factor. In OF PRIORITIES AND HYPOCRICIES A MATTER Lately there has been an immense amount of publicity regarding the number of deaths in California and the nation due to handguns. The obvious implication from this publicity has been that no nation of civilized and sensitive people could longer tolerate the "mass slaughter" that we allow to take place, by the indiscriminate possession of these weapons. Supported by these statistics and that logic, there has been an increased effort to bring about the total restriction of the sale and possession of such handguns. Those who have questioned the propriety and of these have been catigated proposals as "blood hunger extremists who' love violence more than constitutionality life." Let of indiscriminate handgun use. Now then! Where are these same voices of outrage in the press, and on the radio and TV tragedy over the commentaries, indiscriminate and insane of 33,000 people this slaughter year by drunk drivers? If the toleration of handguns such a maniacal commitment to violence, then what does the toleration of death and mayhem by the drunk driver say about any such represent society? anti-soci- al some other factor or can no longer afford to be complacent. But in our concern for the alcoholic, we must awaken to the reality of the problems they cause through factors-w- e combination of ' their addiction. Heartache, is what and death suffering, and victims their they bring to we must move to solve these problems. worth to the buyer thereof. Bringing the day nearer, perhaps, when it will be a federal crime to pay a store only what an article is worth instead of what the storekeeper needs to finance a living standard he likes. D.E. SCOTT Crossroads, U.S.A. Home Economics and Honesty Economics, justice and morality are all parts of one inseparable body of truth. They must, therefore, be in harmony each with the others. What is just and right morally must also be right economically, and the reverse,. Since morality is a guide to betterment and self protection, economic policies which violate moral truth, will sooner or later, and with certainty, cause disruption, degeneration and self destruction. 1. Nature cannot tolerate disorder. 2. There is an indomitable force in the universe which no lerson can alter. No potentate with all his laws and edicts can change this natural law or rule of the Universe regardless of the political power assumed by or delegated to him. S.The Golden Rule and the Decalogue, and their near equivalents in other religions, provide the basic moral codes for mans conduct. These moral precepts have guided the conduct of man in all civilizations. With their violation has come the downfall of individuals and, therefore, countries. 4. Principles of justice and morality are not subject to compromise they can only be abandoned. Principles are precise and strict, they do not make up a code of convenience. A principle can be broken, but it is not flexible and cannot be bent. The Law of Gravity is a good example: we either act in harmony with this law or principle, or, we do not. Good ends cannot be attained by evil means. Cause and consequence are linked inseparably. Good intentions cannot alter this relationship nor can ignorance. nor distorted use of words. $0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Introducing THE SILVER MONARK r PURITY WEIGHT-ON- E .999 FINE 1 TROY OZj I All Kinds of Insurance "In the tradition of America's proud heritage" Life Business Auto Group Medico! Bonds BEACON INSURANCE 30 East remember that those who cannot control their actions when catalyzed by alcohol are a tragic threat to themselves, their families, and the rest of society. Whatever alcoholism is - sickness; genetic heritage, or - d. assume for the purposes of this letter only that death by handguns is on the rise. 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