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Show The Paper That Dares To Take CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Government is not reason: it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master. HAPPENINGS Continued from page 1 arc not the same thing. The dole system has given a lack of respect to workers he stated and was in n favor of the bill to force workers to also pay union dues. Rep. Turner said that the Right to Work Law gives freedom of choice and the stipulation that the requirement that the Unions represent all workers was brought about by the unions. As a UEA member he stated that not everyone is forced to join that organization. Rep. Atkin felt that it still ought to be a country of free choice and people only get what they pay for. Rep. Halvorsonsaid. It sounds like Comwithout munism representation non-unio- representation. The bills SB 7 and SB43 were debated strongly for nearly two days on the Senate floor. SB 17 would authorize public utilities to post rate increases within a y period after notifying the Public Service Commission, then attempt to justify them at a hearing later. SB 43 provides for an automatic unavoidable of utility cost increases to its customers during a four-yeperiod a following public hearing. They both passed the Senate and are ready for the House. ERA has been a leading issue at the State Capito' again this year, even though it has never appeared on the roll. The bill doesn't have a number or sponsor as yet, but proponents of the ERA have been daily at the Capitol speaking personally to their Senators and Representatives. Pushing to bring 1 30-da- pass-throu- gh ar it forth are the A Stand. February 13, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 9 NATURAL GAS PRICE CONTROLS PINCHING FARM FERTILIZER PRODUCTION Utah Farm Bureau Federation Hamilton pointed crisis-oriente- year-roun- d President Ford in his recent speech, called for an end to price interference by the Fcberal Power Comission. and consumers "Farmers should join forces to encourage an end to the price controls on natural gas. "Hamilton said. "At this time T of world food shortages, insufficient fertilizer supplies could be verv serious. state-of-the-uni- on OSHA In 1968, Ralph Nader and others began a campaign to publicize the lack of safety in American industry. The White House proposed legislation, propaganda mills blared statistics, and Congress just had to do something about the alleged threat to the life and health of the workingman. What it did, came in the form of a new federal agency called OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), a bureaucratic nightmare that has the power to control or destroy American business. When the hysteria subsided, a quick look at figures compiled by the authoritative National Safety Council showed that the accident rate in American industry had been cut in half in the previous thirty years, and was still dropping without federal intervention. But the goal of OSHAs originators was not safety and health; the goal was control of business by government. COVERRUERT WHICH CETS SO IK TUT TOO HART IT CIO CUE TOO EVEHYTHIHC HILL ALSO BE SO BIO THAT IT CAN TAII WILLIAM E. HILLER TOITVE COT" EVEHYTHIHC GAS STORAGE TANKS 1.000 Gallon 1975. FOR GAS & FUEL WATER SEPTIC CHEMICALS ETC. and Construction No Rust or Corrosion Acry-Gla- ss Lightweight Easy Installation Extremely Durable Pumps Also Available IYNWIL INDUSTRIES 3065 West 21st South Salt Lake City. Utah 84119 Tel 486-379- 6 Please send information to: Name Address Zip I am interested in a tank to be used for . EPA In 1969, a rupture in an offshore oil well near Santa Barbara (Calif.) led to the fouling of some beaches and the deaths of some birds. Environmentalists and their allies in the media wailed that hundreds of thousands of birds had been killed in an ecological disaster. Out of this alleged crisis emerged the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), with another fantastic assumption of power over American business and industry. Four years later, the painstakingly accurate Congressional Quarterly reported that an estimated 600 birds had been killed. The condition of the beaches and the wild life was not the real concern. What the government wanted, and got, was more power. FEA Last year, we suffered through the energy crisis. All during the period when we waited in gasoline lines and turned our thermostats down, petroleum dealers had full tanks and actually lacked storage space for incoming shipments. Out of the hullabaloo came the FEA (Federal Energy Administration) and government control over this absolutely vital commodity. That crisis was as phony as the others, but it worked beautifully to transfer additional vast powers to Washington. The Latest Crisis Right now we find ourselves in the midst of Energy Crisis No. 2. Dire predictions of every conceivable variety are thrust upon us by the President, the media, and all sorts of experts. But where is the evidence of any shortage? We are told that we must have either President Fords costly tax on imported oil, or rationing. But neither is needed. Must a man choose between pneumonia and tuberculosis? Why are we not allowed to choose health? Why dont totali-tarian- s the American people tell the would-b- e in their midst they have had enough legislation by phony crisis, and that they are wise to the sinister game being played? Copyright 1975 by The John Birch Society Features FRIENDS He ha'i for ONL Y $1.00 i he nht to eritiue who has the heart to help. 20 Assorted Back Issues "11! Isnt EXPOSE YOUR to the Utah Independent Coalition and the Common Cause lobbyists w ho are working unitedly to bring ERA through this year of represented at the Capitol were organizations on the opposing side: Utahns Against ERA. the HOT DOG (HUMANITARIANS OPPOSED TO DEGRADING OUR GIRLS) Womens Coalition Candidates, for Conservative STOP ERA, the Right to Life League and the Friends of the Utah Constitution who have all voiced their opinions concerning the Equal Rights Amendment and many other issues to their Representatives and Senators. The old saying, You may have been a headache but you never were a bore is also true at the Utah Suite Capitol. Amid the serious work and worry of the legislation, occasionally there is a peal of laughter through the marble halls as the ushers may scurry to hunt in every nook and cranny for a missing House member to swing a vote. - that out Women's interested by John F. McManus Our federal governBelmont , Massachusetts ment operates today under procedures that call to mind the decline and fall of Rome. Pressure groups and propaganda campaigns continually d demand more action, and so a Congress passes more legislation. The size and power of government continues to grow, and it will soon become total. Street mobs in Rome many centuries ago; phony crises today -the result is the same. And the outcome cannot help but be the same, unless the whole show is exposed for the fraud it is. Some of the governments foolish' moves are eventually repealed when the heat dies down. But for every ridiculous daylight saving scheme or seatbelt interlock system that gets scrapped, there are numerous and far more dangerous creations that continue to strangle productive Americans. It is these to which we call your attention: the federal agencies such as OSHA, EPA, and FEA. Each was born in a fraudulent crisis. If the phoniness of the pattern can be understood, the first step toward regaining lost freedom will be accomplished. Government interference with the market system is squeezing the nation's food production industry in a vital area, the farm fertilizer supply, a Utah farm leader warned today. Elmo Hamilton, president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, said that concern is growing over the curtailment of fertilizer production due to a shortage of natural gas. Some 30 ammonia plants have had their gas supplies either shut off or sharply curtailed. he explained. The drop in supply is taking place because gas producers are limited by the government in what they can charge for the gas at the wellhead. It's creating a serious Ban between prices for LP and synthetic gasses running at 51.25 per thousand cubic feet and the controlled price of 25 cents per thousand cubic feet for natural gas. The difference between oil prices and natural gas are running close to the same". Hamilton added. No company will continue producing when financial incentive ceases to exist." Unless the government lifts the controls and lets the free market operate, the farm leader warned, the fertilizer shortage could reach well into the future. Farm Bureau policy calls for decontrol of gas prices, and Legislative Council and the League of Women Voters plus the ERA Equally Another Crisis That 1 .1. l int oln |