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Show 4A Emery County Progress iI Thursday, Nov. 29, 1979 I i Emery County on By KEN VAUGHN And the Rambling on and on is back. And you thought you already had enough to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. A word about the editorial cartoon this week. It's not meant to criticize the county attorney's office, or even the defense in the case, but to voice a little frustration we all feel at the total legal system very often. It seems whenever the lawyers and the courts get involved in something, too long and is everything takes too confusing. Of course, the average citizen involved in legal matters often adds to the confusion. But it seems to the layman that contracts, for example, are purposely written to confuse and confound. Do sentences really have to be a couple hundred words long? Do all words have to be long or Latin to be important? Or are they just telling us of the importance of lawyers? don't speak Latin; do you? bet there are English words that mean the same thing those Latin ones do. And contracts and other legal documents seem to be purposely worded so that the person who wrote them knows more about what they say than I I the reader. The better to surprise you with my dear. does layman (I'm Emery cer- tainly one) probably owes much of his confusion to his own ignorance. Just about everything in this nation is based on a principle of law. It's one of the most important things there is. Without thinking about it, we deal with legal points every day. But how much do you remember about law from high school? Can you still even luring N 2 sss recite the first ten amendments the Constitution, the Bill of to Rights? from freedom of and "the right to bear speech arms," name just two of them. In college, the extent of what learned about the law (aside from its direct relationship in journalism) was to call a Aside O i T' w CSSS's S?Siss I rs-jSs- lawyer! course, sr--g . had been - law that pre majoring would have been a lot different. But the law affects us all, not just lawyers. It seems that if someone really tried, they could make some of it simple enough that we could all understand. Of- - i County I in ' new ,110'' Our society is too complex to eliminate the need and worth of a lawyer. But we ought to be able to walk down the street without holding on to one's hand. Rose leaving For our readers in Emery Town, this is the last issue for Then they can always come the town news to be written by across some ambiguity in the our able correspondent Rose wording if they change their Olsen. r, mind about something. She is leaving on an LDS Of course, everybody's jobs Mission. We all wish her well. seem easier to do until you try The new correspondent in to do it yourself. Emery is Martha Jacobsen. av ... 4JUPW WUUO CF rNA yfyUJl The wheels of justice turn slowly Beware of medical quacks: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is, says FDA Practice of back of horse drawn enough connection to trailers, offering modern medicine and alive snakeoil to cure any science to make them unfortunately, and well today. That variety of ailments. sound means that some But todays medicine believeable. Yet todays Dr. people are not as man is much more healthy as they might sophisticated. Quack is old The modern man fashioned, too. He be, and are probably a little bit poorer, too. knows that the public offers cures for the Quackery conjures wont swallow snakeoil uncureable, miracles of so he offers updated for those willing to up pictures medicine men making gadgets, devices and believe, help for those their pitches from the potions with just who cant find it The quackery is, almost THE ENERGY CUBE You Owe anywhere else. about to close in. The quacks offers mirNevertheless, acles dont happen. are often tempting But are with promotions such they as these: expensive. The Food and Drug guaranteed to reduce .... warns devices, the that willingness to believe in miracle cures costs the American public many millions of dollars a year. Not only are the 3 .... schemes and effective, or ailment for which quackery it is medical science has no expensive, but they because can also be harmful. advertised the product treatment, or treatment Too many people rely is reliable. The laws of is on quack promises the land dont work uncertain? when they should be that way. Does the promoter So what can a poor use case seeking professional many medical advice and and often ailing citizen or do to protect against testimonials treatment. from Todays quacks quackery? A quick grateful ex - patients? operate mainly rule of thumb is: tooIf If the answer is yes to any of these through the mails. something looks While yesterdays good to be true, it questions, chances are pitch man slipped probably is. youve come across a of quack operation. Other ways away in the dead of night as his scheme recognizing quackery was in danger of being is to test it with these information about exposed, so todays questions: quackery or to report a Is the product a quack product, contact counterpart merely special or "secret your nearest FDS changes identity stakes, adopting a new remedy not available office, the Federal other Trade Commission, or name, and getting from any another post office box source? U.S. the Postal Does the promoter Service. as authorities are histories H.A.S.H. 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