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Show May 14, 1970 THE UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 2 Reader Outlook THE Educated Person Independent Dear Editor: The first mark of an educated person is that he will keep his mind open on all things until all aspects of a situation have been considered. Frequently, an uninformed person is sure that he has answers but unfortunately, rather than solving the particular problem at hand, he unwittingly becomes part of the problem. The mark of education becomes evident in these personal evaluations: A truly educated person has difficulty labeling another person "stupid", an uneducated person may have less difficulty in doing so. To the educated, a native of China is Chinese; to the less educated he is a chinaman; to the uneducated,he is a chink. No matter how great personal accomplishments are, unfortunately, a person is no greater in the eyes of another than the beholder's competence permits him to be. Prejudice is the greatest barrier to learning because a prejudiced person never gets his prejudice through logic nor reason. Unfortunately, a person frequently cannot be reasoned out of something he has not been reasoned into. The world has need of understanding. and while human behavior is mysterious because we are part of the mystery we are trying to solve it is imperative that through the medium of education, we remove prejudice and exert great- Published monthly, the second Thursday of every month, at Salt Lake City, Utah (Soon to be published twice every month) SEND CHANGE P.O. OF BOX ADDRESS 6274 FORMS AND CORRESPONDENCE SALT LAKE CITY TELEPHONE UTAH 84105 484-43- 39 J. Reese Hunter J. McKinnon Smith TO Editor Publication Manager Advertisers Contact Byron Cannon Anderson 2724 South 11th East Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 (Telephone: . 466-31- 50) SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO THE UTAH INDEPENDENT. Six months $6.00, one year $10.00, two years 6274, City, Utah 84105. Phone $1 8.00. Order from the Utah Independent, P. O. Box Salt Lake 484-433- 9. Reprints of this issue for bulk mailing to one address: 1 copy 25 cents, 5 copies $1.00, 10 copies $1.80, 25 copies $4.00, 50 copies $7.00, 100 copies $12.00, 200 copies $20.00, 500 copies $40.00, 1,000 copies $60.00. The Conservative Marketplace of Utah Who Wants Model Cities ? by J. McKinnon Smith One hundred eighty six years ago a group of men who had suffered every torture of oppression at the hands of European tyrants and dictators gathered together and drew up a document to protect themselves and their posterity from such tyranny. These men were skeptics, and they were suspicious of every uncrossed T and undotted "i". They wrote our Constitution. Astonishingly, that great document extends to pur Federal Government 80 grants of power but 1 15 Prohibitions. It makes 20 grants of power for legislative authority while levying 70 Restraints. Thomas Jefferson was one of those skeptics. Jefferson did not believe in taking any chances with "government by men" in place of "government by law". It was he who said: "It would be a dangerous delusion if our confidence in the men of our choice should silence our fears for the safety of our rights. Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded on jealousy, not in confidence. It is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power In questions of power, then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." ... Mr. Jefferson went on further and said: "When all government shall be drawn to Washington, as the center of power, it will become venal and oppressive." If living today, obviously, Mr. Jefferson would use even stronger language. Therefore let us examine with the eyes of skepticism and a heart of suspicion this proposed new Model City Program. It must become obvious to even the casual reader of this suggested program, that it is in direct violation of the basic principle of true American ideals and our Constitution. It removes from the people their choice of those officials whom they are obliged to trust with power. It entrusts to men, powers virtually without limit, prohibition or restraint To be precise, this suggested document gives almost unlimited, unrestrained authority and power to one individual the adminis- trator. Unrestrained authority and power breeds tyranny, destruction and chaos. The powder to rule is the power to destroy. We are wont these days to look to government for security and leisure, and to trust in the "Great White Father" in Washer effort toward understanding ington. That has been planned so. The American Indian fellow-meour and appreciating trustfully followed that course. Where is he today? The University of Utah We citizens cannot trust in Washington, we cannot trust in our state capitol and we cannot trust in the county hall of Who's Running The Place? John E. Smith House of Rep., Utah records or the city hall. The responsibility of citizenship remains with us. If we shirk our responsibilities and misplace our confidence in public officials not of our choosing, we deThe agitators at the University of Utah are still goWarn Neighbors serve enslavement and poverty under tyrants bred in the labwell the as as ing strong. They are in the faculty Dear Editor: oratory of misplaced confidence. Daniel Webster said, "God studentboay. There are even The 3 points of the Scout grants liberty only to those who live it and will always guard like to agitators attending the "U". What we would hand sign are service to Cod, and defend it" It is our rights and our liberties that are at know is, whos running the place? Why is it, all an freedom" and service to our fellowmen and stake. agitator has to do is yell, academic service to ourselves. If we llenjamin Franklin warned us in no uncertain terms: "This everybody in the administration folds up like an would live up to those 3 prin- government . . . can only end in despotism, as other forms Is there no one responsible up there for what goes ciples plus the 12 points of the have done before it, when the people shall become so corruped on? for the agitational groups being recognized on Scout law, we would be a hap- as to need despotic government as being incapable of any other." Have we reached that point? Will once-greapy people. Throw the Scout brilliant, campus? for the quality of speakers on campus? to in and to boot be America the first itself nation vote into intelligent promise And what is the fare StickWe once the should heed socialism Marxian Lenin Communist (communism)? given the students at ChalAmer"When to hang the capitalists, we will find them er it is "Love time that said, Sign says, lenge Week? It does not or for "Stand Leave ica It" other for the contract to supply the rope. up bidding against each matter whether the topic is America." "Stand up for God There is a strange likeness in this model cities' program, air polution, women's lib& Family". Learn all that we and the ultimate goal and purpose faintly visible between the eration, racial problems, can and we will. Teach, and lines to the pattern being developed over our nation in many birth control, the Vietnam warn our neighbors at all costs. areas. The model cities program has all the earmarks of War, or what have you. God commands us to teach and being a "piece of the rope" which Commissar Lenin mentions These speakers all find a warn each other. in his statement, a piece of the rope with which we will be hung common source of the If we don't warn our neigh- when the time comes for free government to be hung. problems - - our system of of the evils , and dangbors "It is the comm on. fate of the indolent to see their rights begovernment and free ers in our ddy, blood will be come a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath enterprise. Their common laid on our heads. If we have given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he solution is, we must get the information and if we shut break, servitude is at once the consequence of the crime and the rid of capitalism and have our mouths with it in fear of punishment of his guilt" more federal government offending, and anger people Is there anyone in the with the truth, wo unto us on Administration at the "U" who has enough gumption to stand up for freedom and America? Is there anyone our judgment day! Americans and Christians have a great up at the "U" who will stand up and say, "throw the bums out?' Are wTe to continue to be plagued with the responsibility to teach, and SDS'ers, of whom Gus Hall, head of the Communist warn people or wTe will be left out in the bitter cold, maybe Party U.S.A., said, "Fronts are a thing of the past forever. The news media are We don't need them. We've got the Dubois Clubs, SNCC and SDS going for us." Mao, in China, had the covered with their neighbors Red Gard. The Reds in America have the SDS. blood, and so are many in- ITEM: From an article in the Aew York Times for February 20, 1970: Must our young people suffer the same riots and dividuals. Are we guilty of it? Roland Mather President Nixon urged the Senate today to ratify the United Nations killings as at other universities due to the presense of Laconio 715 Court create and agreement outlawing genocide .... Sources on the Senate Foreign Relations groups like these? Their purpose is to agitate Lake Salt City Committee, where the genocide agreement has languished for 21 years, trouble. It used to be that agitators and troublemakers were not tolerated in a community. Today, they get expressed concern that a Senate vote could lead either to an embarrassing - THE EDUCATOR " Editor's Outlook n. so-call- ed "non-studen- t" ac-cordia- n? t, Genocide Agreement CORRECTION. PLEASE! special treatment the SDS made applicaton to the BYU for a When a J ft rii 1 defeat or only a narrow victory 1 Correction in sharp contrast to repeated demonstrations where it tries to impose its will on the majority by riot, sabotage and disruption. There's nothing in my con ic ontinuc-i- i on pnjji- :ji - unless the President is willing and able to twist arms. This was not a plea from a President imbued with altruism, but rather a significant portion of a well orchestrated power play designed by the Insiders to coerce the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association to change its long standing opposition to this nefarious treaty. Note, for example, that on February fil th Secretary of State William P. : (continued on page 11) |