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Show Page 2 The UTAH Independent July 12, 1973 The (MCH MARILYN MANION Abortion Notv Euthanasia Later Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Who has the right to life? Can the Supreme Court Morality, and Truth Liberty, decide that for us? The justices seem to think so. If you disagree, have you any recourse? Yes, indeed, says Dr. Charles Rice, Professor of Law at Notre Dame University. Dr. Rice tells you everything you need to know on the subject of abortion in a legalized booklet called The Human Life Amendment. You can get a copy by sending 50 cents to The Manion Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free. J. Reese Hunter KERSHNER-ROW- COMMENTARY E South Forum, Bend, Indiana. Meanwhile, hear what Dr. Rice had to say vhen he addressed the Forum Manion Howard Kershner Edward Rowe THE ANSWER IS MORE WORK The Japanese work 48 hours a week. Absenteeism and are practically unknown. The result is an enormous, favorable trade balance, an increasing gold reserve and greater and greater inroads on our domestic market as well as our foreign customers. Contrasting, as these lines are written, the postal workers in our country are demanding a four-da- y week, with only 28 hours of work (a little more than half of the Japanese week), the right to refuse overtime work, better fringe benefits and a substantial raise in pay. If any considerable part of these demands are met, postal rates will have to be much higher, thus adding to the cost of doing business. The result will be higher prices all along the line and further demands for wage increases. We are already unable to compete successfully with many of our foreign competitors and this will make a very bad situation much worse. If we do not choose to compete, the alternative is a economy under rigid government management. The nearest parallel is Hitlers Germany. Nobody wants that, but, if we do not exercise restraint, we are going to get it. we must To maintain our freedom and reestablish the free market in wages as well as prices and profits, wherein each worker is paid the economic value of his contribution as determined by the purchasers of the goods or services he brings to the marketplace. If we do not want that, the alternative is a rigid, government-manage- d economy with increasing hardship, loss of liberty and eventually cruel dictatorship. foot-draggi- Ruth Murray ng self-contain- Crying, screaming from your heights, you were once the King of birds. What has happened to your grandeur, to your great commanding words? You stand for our blest America, Nation proud and Promised Land, She, like you, has lost her grandeur, forgotten and despised of man. n A Constitution, long has hung by but a thread. oh ye great delivers, as the revelation said. Come forth We would stand beside the leaders ofGod'schosen holy band, another Promised Land. Oh, that we could form God-give- w, kTi Living Issues, 7960 Crescent Ave. Buena Park, California 90620 Dangerous Dick President Nixon has ordered a crackdown on Mayor Richard Daleys political machine. He is taking vengeance on Daley because of the 1960 Presidential election, when Nixon narrowly lost to John F. Kennedy. A Republican survey produced evidence of widespread vote frauds in Chicago, wnich convinced Nixon that this ballot-stuffin- g had edged him out of Illinois crucial electoral vote. Independent The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $6.00 per year by surface mail in the United States. Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah Send change of address forms and correspondence to Utah's Largest and 1 by Jo Hindman ACIR Acts Like Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly the posh in Settling magnificence of the Hyatt hotel on Union Square, San Francisco, the entourage board and tax-suppor- ted the of Commission Advisory on Relations once demonstrated (ACIR) again why the federal commission Intergovernmental should be placed under the eye of Congress. In letters and telephone calls, it was made plain that ACIR would not schedule as citizens witnesses at the June 21 hearings. Time was reserved only for invited speakers from NARC, CCIR, ABAG, AOC, LWV, city managers, etc. (key Nat'l Assn. Regional California Councils, Council ACIR's staff mailed out to the selected witnesses. Their input comprised the gist of the hearings. "Substate regionalism was the topic at the June 3 sessions. Mayors, county commissioners, state legislators and governors, U.S. Senators and Congressmen sit on ACIR's board and haggle, but inevitably approve what the staff writes. The agenda told each "While member, you are at the public hearings your wife and children will be in chauffered limosines touring Nob Hill, Chinatown, Golden Gate Park, Fishermans Wharf, the Presidio, Cliff House and Mission Dolores ...(or) on a tour of San Francisco 21-2- Bay. Pharaoh Chairman Robert E. Morriam chin-on-hastupor. One presided. His father, the late weary mayor Charles E. Merriam, political Third and last day found ACIR science professor at the Univ. of Chicago, helped to create w hat is members boggled by the flood called today, The 1313 Center, of verbiage, reduced to d E. 1313 60th St., Chicago on that sfupor. One same campus. Connecting with weary mayor raised his head, nd chin-on-han- other groups and agents nationwide, the 1313 syndicate works to convert local government into a vast system of regions, and to prevent citizens from voting on the change. n Seven witnesses Prof. Victor Jones, spoke. One, pro-regio- Berkeley, fumbled, (Ca.) stopped, produced another paper which he explained as "his. Hed picked up someone on else's Relations, Intergovernmental the "little ACIR; Assn. Bay Area Govts., So. Calif. Assn. Gov'ts., Assn. Oregon Counties, League of Women Voters). questions , . ed self-governme- 2459 Major ETRO NEWS radio audience not long ago: The Supreme Court jecided that the child in the womb is not a person within the meaning oi the 14th Amendment, which protects the right to live as well as the right io the equal protection of the laws. The 14th Amendment .applies only to persons. Until now we thought that all human beings were persons, but now we find that the child in the womb is not a person. The effect of it is that he has no rights which can supersede the mothers right Continued On Page 4 notes in error. Assemblyman Knox (Ca.) failed to show. Reluctantly, the chairman released some of the unused time (30 min.) to three unscheduled citizens critical of ACIR. On the ensuing two days, ACIR held its board meeting. The hearings data was not mentioned. The Docket Book, 365 pages, was the focal point. The staff wrote it. The executive director read each paragraph in a loud voice. Changing a verb here and there, or a comma, the appointed members voted for innovations theyd blush to admit "back home." For instance, ACIR proposes that appointed regional boundary commissions have power to dissolve local governments, and to cancel their contracts to make way for a region. Third and last day found ACIR members boggled by the flood of verbiage, reduced to disturbed when a promised correction was passed over in a final reading. The staff tensed. The usual glibness ensued. The official held. The passage was hastily shuffled into limbo for later rescue by the staff. Toward adjournment, someone joked about the San Francisco Chronicle's story which correctly ACIR's plan "to the reported create what it prefers to call (62373) 'officially multi-jurisdiction- umbrella designated al organizations' Those are the . a transitional term, will which give way to more UMJO's, powerful ARIC's authoritative regional councils. to advising the White House (for a price), ACIR runs a tight operation which is In addition busily under government regional local entombing layers of governance. The to the process was Pharaohs. When they came, to power, they bricked off their well-know- n1 predecessors' steles and monuments which were offensive to their royal eyes: And so it is with the. ACIR's new regions which are forming over vanishing governments. -- jocal Copyright by Jo Hindman 1973 |