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Show The paper That Dares To I Take i - A April 17, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 5 Stand . Why Choose the Communist Way? MARILYN MANION - BEEFING Thumb through the women's magazines for the past several months, and you will find dozens of recipes for meatless meals. They are designed, on one hand, for and no one saving money can quarrel with the need for doing that. But on the other hand they are offered to the family cook as a way to conserve grain so that people, not cattle, can get enough to eat. In other words, every steak or hamburger you X consume will deprive number of people in underdeveloped countries of enough food to stay alive. It is stated, for example, that an acre of land can produce only 182 pounds of beef. The humanitarian consumer . urged to think how many pounds of people could be sustained by the grain now fed to steers. Shameful waste, gluttonous Americans, citrus pulp left over after our orange juice has been squeezed out. The figures that have been used about producing 182 pounds of beef on an acre, says Thone, made the erroneous assumption that cattle are fed grain from birth. If a fed steer weighs 1,000 pounds, he has probably been fed only about 2,500 pounds of grain. So the truth of the matter is that the beef we consume doesnt eat up as much of the precious grain as you may have been led to believe. But another question occurs as we discuss all of this, namely, what is our obligation to feed the Third World and what can we do to help the hungry? so and on. Well, Representative Charles Thone who hails from Nebraska and knows quite a lot about the care and feeding of beef has offered some cattle enlightening facts to ponder. First off, Thone says, umost cattle are raised on land - - that should never be cultivated. The worst thing that could happen to our Nebraska sandhills would be to plant them in com or other row crops. (Environmentalare where your loud ists, voices?) Secondly, continues the Congressman, three-fourth- about of what s Thone Representative is by John F. McManus "A completely free Belmont, Massachusetts economy always produces too much and must have a million salesmen to find ways and places to move that abundance. The completely socialist economy under Communism always produces too little and must have a million ration clerks to divide what there is. Which do you choose ? The man who in 1966 outlined the two alternatives listed above, and then asked the American people to choose one or the other, was John Birch Society leader Robert Welch. Unfortunately for our country, too few Americans even realized that such alternatives existed, either then or now. As a result, the choice of a socialist economy is being made for us, and, as predicted, it has led to too little' production and an inevitable proliferation of ration clerks and bureaucrats. points out that If America provides free food for all the people in a nation, there will never be any incentive for that countrys farmers to grow their own food. I might add that if the country in question is socialist, and has removed all incentives for people to produce, why, again, should farmers put themselves out to grow more crops? As the Wall A Case In Point Energy The shortage of energy in our country may at present exist more in the headlines than in fact, but an actual shortage in the future is clearly foreseeable. It will be the direct result of the accelerating strangulation of free enterprise by ever larger and more oppressive government. The following are a few examples of this strangulation : The Federal Power Commission's price ceiling on natural gas has discouraged exploration for new wells. Additional price controls have discouraged exploration for new oil deposits. Environmental Protection Agency decrees have denied access to Alaskan and offshore oil. Production of coal has been held back by government refusal to grant leases to mine it, by the awesome requirements of the Clean Air Act, and by artificially created fear of strip mining. Government interference has resulted in the cancellation or closing of over one hundred All of this, of course, is socialism in action. But in the face of this looming crisis, America's leaders are prescribing cures which will eventually kill the patient. Communist Solutions Are Offered Massive evidence shows that the government has caused the problem. But America's leaders are blaming the people for consuming too much, and not themselves for holding back production. President Ford wants to cut oil consumption by taxing oil imports; House Speaker Carl Albert wants rationing, gasless days, and excise taxes on autos; labor leader George Meany wants to nationalize the oil industry; Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts wants a gasoline tax; and Secretary of State Kissinger wants to curb petroleum use with taxes, import quotas, and tariffs. Such proposals are standard fare in socialist and Communist countries where the too little must always be divided up by means of additional government action. In the process, government leaps merrily along toward total control of everything. large-horsepow- er twenty-cent-per-gall- on Why Not The American Answer? The American way to overcome a shortage is to produce more goods. What this country needs is less government interference, not more. Left to its own devices, American ingenuity and resourcefulness could do away with any shortage. But our leaders are not promoting the American way. The choice being made for us is not final, however. We still have the capability to choose between the system under which free men produce plenty, and the system which leads to want, privation, and eventually to tyranny. Perhaps it is time to reverse the trend that has been established for us, by choosing new leaders who can be counted on to think and act like Americans. nuclear power plants. Copyright 1975 by The John Birch Society Features Street Journal aptly put it, We would dearly love to hear an American Ambassador to India raise the question, How come we produce food so much better than you do? But then, Journal the this of course continues, would amount to defending capitalism. And who wants to do that? -- The American Way Features the typically fed steer has eaten by the time it is ready for market consists of food that man cant or wont eat. Among them: grass, and, in Florida, the Reader's comments and questions are welcome. 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