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Show Page The Utah Independent 8 METRO Tests Show Widespread Illiteracy one million Aboi' t American youths 12 to 17 :unnot read as well as the iverage fourth grader and can thus called he illiterate, to according new a government report. Reading test scores were worse among blacks than whites, boys than girls, and youngsters from families with parents than thouse from more the fortunate backgrounds, report showed. The report, released by the National ('enter for Health low-inco- less-educate- d' provided new the United States literacy problem more than $40 yearly on public Statistics, evicence that has a serious despite the billion spent school operations. The report's findings were based on brief literacy tests administered to a selected of n.'h.N youths from sample through ll70. Ihe tests were part of the I national center's health examination survev. a major quest tor data on Americans' physical and mental health. Later reports will explore links between illiteracy and health problems. v y The Tastiest Buffet in Town 5 LOCATIONS IN UTAH doctrinaire throughout the fifty state legislatures under the orbit of powerful CSG. Meanwhile at national level. CSCi has tackled Congress itself in a 1 3 3 deal cooked up by a pair of Utah Metrocrats. In stringing their lines, they use part of the same AC1R-I31- 3 network this time the NGC. NGC is composed of state CSG claims to be Governors. NGCs secretariat. The interlocking is typical syndicate struc1 turing and provides 1313 propagandists with built-i- n convenience and support at any time. U.S. Sen. Frank E. Moss (Utah) in addressing the NGC invited the States, through the NGC. to supply to create a think-tan- k with ideas. Utahs Congress Governor Rampton who just happened to be NGCs chairman accepted the Moss invitation. In an NGC news release. Rampton announced a major reorganization of NGC for the specific purpose of giving NGC two new offspring, the Center for Policy Research and Analysis and Affairs are to feed The Congressional. Division. They and the White House Congress with 1313 ideas (Congressional Record Oct. 16. 1974 p. S 19245). ACIRs advance publicity on the February rally discloses a program replete with ideas for the 1313 bunch to pass along from the think tank. In charge is Wm. R. former ACIRs MacDougall. His executive director. resignation from ACIRs head staff position in mid-197- 4 was explained as a departure back to California to practice law. Instead, he stayed on in Washington and is midwifing the rally. people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. My Hosea 4:6 Fashion Place Mall (All in Salt Lake City) THE E. P. THORNTON COLUMN Continued from page 2 744 E. 4th South 2960 Highland Drive Orem Ogden The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand February 13, 1975 COMPANY MUSIC Across from Salt Palace PIANOS MUSIC-INSTRUM- REPAIR-RENT- Sol Lofc GUITARS ENTS ALS City, Utah 141 01 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo An Open Letter to All Subscribers First Security INFLUENCE YOUR COUNTS-U- SE IT If you are among the millions trations and excerpts from the of uneasy, vaguely alarmed citizens school books in Kanawha County. who feel that w'e as a nation are West Va. about which the parents going bankrupt (which is true) and are protesting so vigorously. I sent her the material. Then our children are being yanked from our control and herded into she pulled a fast one on me. bless cattle-pen- s called her heart! She wrote a letter to the institutional public schools, THIS COLUMN editor of a newspaper in WisIS FOR YOU. consin, and she briefly described If you worry a little (but not the West Virginia text book fight, quite enough) about our liberal saying that if any reader would media attacks on our C.I.A. and write direct to E.P. Thornton and our F.B.l. and our police, while the enclose fifty cents, I would send same media doesnt bother to them a packet of proof of what is explain that every nation has to going on. have a spy system in order to Imogene Cashmore. blessed survive. patriot, you just SNOWED me! I If you sense, somehow, that worked till 10 PM one night stufthe networks are brainwashing fing envelopes, writing personal you, that the big city newspapers letters, and otherwise responding mostly seem to favor disarming to the flock of people who you. killing children before birth, WROTE ME BECAUSE OF LETTER TO THE letting murderers live to kill again, YOUR and favor detente with our sworn EDITOR! I got letters from many enemies while we feed them our Wisconsin cities and towns inwheat and build up their industries. cluding Wilton, ICrosse. West If you are among these Salem. Galesville. Stoddard. citizens, watching America fall into Eastman (a minister) Westby, the clutches of liberals, radicals, Coon Valley, and from nearby socialists and communists WHILE Illinois. YOU DO NOTHING BUT Reader, this is not an inWORRY AND COMPLAIN vitation for you to do the same ABOUT IT. this column is FOR thing. I have no big staff, and I YOU!! receive about as much reader mail This has to be a personal as 1 can process. I am MERELY experience. I am acquainted, only MAKING A POINT. Suppose by correspondence, with a lady YOU decided to distribute innamed Imogene Cashmore who formative material. YOU could aclives at Gays Mills. Wisconsin. quire a small supply I would Couldn't be a very big place. guide you gladly. YOU could write is Neither Murrells Inlet, S.C.. my letters to editors, and let the recent home, or my present one at readers write YOU for exhibits. Myrtle Beach. S.C. Where you live Dont say it wont work. Imogene has nothing to do with w hether you Cashmore demonstrated that IT can make your influence count in a WILL. fight for survival. Suppose we could activate just is a ONE MILLION people like Imogene Cashmore woman and I am a man. so sex Imogene Cashmore about one doesnt determine w hether you can out of every 50 or 75 adults. Supexert influence. Let me tell you pose they all went to work DOING briefly what has happened, as an WHAT THEY COULD to defend example of what YOU can make our country. Writing to editors, happen if you really want to put reading and studying so as to conand your shoulder to the American vince skeptical friends wheel. of our danger. Writing neighbors For years I had read in the congressmen, contacting radio talk Manchester (N.H.) UNION shows. WE COULD WIN THIS LEA DER newspaper letters to the FIGHT. editor written by Imogene Thank you. Imogene Cashmore. I was writing letters to Cashmore. for the honor you paid the same editor. I clipped and my column. May your courageous saved some of hers because they kind multiply until we awaken and revive our blessed country, and gave me new facts or added inI became a sights. newspaper play a grand role, in Americas columnist. Imogene Cashmore survival. I will be wrote me in December. 19741 glad to send you a list I abbreviate congratulate you of th ings you can do. Some stamps on your columns in. Borger (Texas) will help, but not required. E. P. NEWS HERALD and other Thornton, F Arcadian No. I, publications. I request those illus Myrtle Beach, S.C. 29577. 6-- Dear Friends: The Reasons You have, no doubt, heard of "preferred customers." Let our advertisers know that they are a "preferred business " as far as you are con- cerned. 1 . 2. If you will take that extra moment to do this our advertisers will appreciate both you and They will want to continue advertising which will help lis to continue our rapid growth. us. Thank you, friends. We appreciate all that you do to help. Sincerely yours. The Utah Independent OOOOOOOOOOOOOOf 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. I Swear It pleases mother so much. It is a fine mark of manliness. It proves I have self 9. control. 10. It imlicates how clearly my mind operates. It makes my conversation so pleasing to everybody. It leaves no doubt in anyones mind as to my good breeding. It impresses people that 1 have more than ordinary education. It is an unmistakable sign of culture and refinement. It makes me desireable among a very personality women children, and and in respectable society. It is my way of honoring God who said Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Continued from page 1 Lets see if we can figure out why this giant financial institution didnt merely stay out of the gold selling business instead of protesting so loudly, implying of course that gold ownership is such very bad news. In the book, Capitalism The Unknown Ideal. published by the New American Library there is a Gold and chapter entitled Economic Freedom. It is written by one of the few, perhaps the only, economic advisor to the president of the United States who favors gold, Alan Greenspan. In a beautiful explanation of the shabby secret of the welfare state advocates tirades against gold, one of the paragraphs used by Greenspan stands particularly pungent; The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the ban- king system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. They have created paper reserves in the form of government bonds which through a complicated series of steps the hanks accept in place of tangible assets and treat as if they were an actual deposit, i.e., as the equivalent of what was formerly a deposit of gold. The holder of a government bond or a bank deposit created hv paper reserves believes that he has a valid claim on a real asset. But the fact is that there are now more claims outstanding than real assets. The law of supply and demand is not to be conned. As the supply of money (of claims) increases relative to the supply of tangible assets in the economy, prices must "... When the eventaully rise." economy's books are finally balanced, one finds that this loss in value represents the goods purchased by the government for welfare or other purposes (vote buying?) with the money proceeds of the government bonds financed by bank credit expansion. This column intends no discredit to Mr. Eccles or his chain of Nor does it intend to banks. suggest that he is a statist, or even a He may liberal interventionist. consider himself a conservative. Many bankers do. It is to suggest that as a business leader, financial and community leader and opinion molder. Mr. Eccles has indeed a responsibility to his country as well as his stockholders as his letter-a- d suggested. But is this responsibility furthered by such a wanton disregard for the track record of Uncle Sams money managers? This is entirely aside from the obvious question of Who profits from this kind of bank credit expansion? I'm not concerned with the or the ComBilderburgcrs munists. real or imagined. I am concerned with nice-gu- y bankers who should know the cause of our headlong rush to national suicide via money inflation. THOUGHT FOR FEBRUARY During Independence. When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. - Bismarck out as N the War the for Pacific rthwest was being explored for tl lirst time by trappers and fur tr alers. Their crude maps and knowledge of the country would aid greatly the later work of Lewis and Clark in 1K04-- 6 |