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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 4 The Utah Independent April 24, 1975 READERS OUTLOOK TOM ANDERSON Continued from page 2 obvious that individuals who believe in freedom will have differences. Thats what makes them individuals. If we all thought and acted the same way we would be no different than the Socialists that we oppose. Differences of opinion-ar- e good, as long as we dont destroy ourselves arguing the differences which are not so great as to divide us in our all out fight against Socialism. 1 am confident that we will all be the better from your openness concerning your We support you both, stands. along with anyone and everyone who actively opposes oppression. Keep up your fights against oppression, either separately or together, since you are both right! It is wmmmMmmmmKtmmmmrnmmm Continued from page 2 when he was driving under the influence of liquor, police said. An attractive model was with him, but she neither hit him, jumped off the bridge, nor did a strip tease. Oh well, Henry Ford II has always been on the wrong side of the road. Speaking of Fords, President Edsel Ford ordered a load of official White House china and glassware flown to Florida for the Presidents social events there for a couple of days. Hes learning. He reminds you of the fellow who Six months ago 1 confessed: couldnt spell professor and now I are one. When he was first appointed, he was painted by the press as being so stingy he wouldnt pay a dime to see a giraffe backstroke the Atlantic. Communists, Martin Luther King, equality, food stamp bums, Presidents, do-goode- rs, the League, We lead an and columnists. life. 1 have been in trouble ever Anti-Defamati- on ever-restrict- ed since started I writing, - naturally. Once shortly after World War II to make the world safe for Communism I wrote an editorial saying that there should be no veterans benefits for any veterans except those injured in combat, and that we should go all-ofor them, and for the families of thos killed in line - ut of duty. In the next mail in those days a letter arrived in no more time than it would take a stage coach to deliver it came a scribbled post card You from Kentucky: Butz, Secretary of Agriculture, is probably on the Earl way out. His problem is that he is prone to forget hes a politician, and says what he thinks. Thats really unforgivable in politics. Butz has been in and out of trouble as much as Richard Burton, though for quite different reasons. And never as much as after he made his (he thought) off-the-reco- rd to some reporters funny while commenting on the expanding population of the world and the predicted food famine. Butz related the story of the Italian woman who was told that in practicing birth control she was disobeying the y Pope. She replied: He da game, he no maka da rules. All hell broke loose. Someone explained the story to our President and he ordered Butz to apologize. Ive forgotten whether he was supposed to apologize to the Italian woman or to the Pope. We can now no longer tell jokes about Negroes, Jews, Polocks, Dagoes, Yankees, rednecks, Israel; Indians, minorities, women, Catholics, Protestants, lesbians, gluttons, no-pla- ITS ALL Swede, prismatic S.O.B. (He spelled it out). In case you dont know what a prismatic S.O.B. is, thats from any angle you look at him. there And have been but others, often hilarious we are unprintable. So what going to be allowed to laugh at? Merry Gerry maybe? LESS CONTROL NEEDED Energy Tax and Individual Relief Act of 1974, brainchild of the late great Honorable Wilbur Mills, The would eliminate the oil depletion allowance. It is gratifying that the depletion of the Arkansas gusher came first, although his bill may eventually pass the present Democrat-Labo- r Congress. oil The industry is already one of the industries in most-regulat- ed this country. What we need in this country is less control over private business and more control over politicians funny business. Let us be thankful that the well down by the old Mills stream, a gusher once thought bottomless, is now capped. Although in Mills defense, let it be acknowledged that he got his woman out of the water. -- The American Way Features SO ENCOURAGING, BUT NOT FOR US The U.S. governments failure to support Cambodia and South Vietnam in their hour of greatest need has caused irrepressible and overwhelming encouragement all over the world all over the Communist World that is. Now, in Latin America, Africa, the Far and Middle East, in Portugal and Spain, everywhere, the Communists know those resisting communist conquest will not have American support. And what couid be more encouraging to the Communists bent upon world conquest? - THE SECRET ALTERNATIVE Anything the government does to pump in more dollars to g t the economy up and going, is also going to send the dollar down; while anything the government does to keep the dollar up is also going to send the economy on down. So which would we really want government to do? Theres an almost secret third alternative: Less doing by the government. More freedom to he able to do for ourselves. With less government, less would be deducted from our earnings for taxes, less would be deducted from our savings by inflation, and less would be added to our prices for taxes; so we really would all be better off all the way around. Isn't that what we really want? Whereas United States diplomatic representatives are presently engaged in negotiations with representatives of the de facto Revolutionary Government of Panama, under the declared purpose to surrender to Panama, now or on some future date. United States sovereign main-tairights and treaty obligations, as deiined below, to operate, protect, and otherwise govern the United canal and its protective frame of the Canal d Zone, herein designated as the canal and the zone, respectively, situated within the Isthmus of Panama; n, States-owne- Whereas title to and ownership of the Canal Zone, under the right in perpetuity to exercise sovereign control thereof, were vested absolutely in the United States and recognized to have been so vested in certain solemnly ratified treaties by the United States with Great Britain, Panama, and Columbia, to wit: Treaty of 1901 between the (1) The United States and Great Britain, under which the United States adopted the principles of the Convention of Constantinople of 1888 as the rules for operation, regulation, and management of the canal; and (2) The Treaty of 1903 between the Republic of Panama and the United States, bv the terms of which the Republic of Panama granted full sovereign rights, power, and authority in perpetuity' to the United States over the zone for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the canal to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power, or authority; and (3) The Thomson-Urruti- a Treaty of April 6, 1914, proclaimed March 30, 1922, between the Republic of Columbia and the United States, under which the Republic of Columbia recognized that the title to the canal and the Panama Railroad is vested entirely and absolutely in the United States, which treaty granted important rights in the use of the canal and railroad to Columbia; and Whereas the United States, in addition to having so acquired title to and ownership of the Canal Zone by constitutional means, purchased all privately owned land and property in the zone making it the most costly United States territorial possession; and Whereas the United States since 1904 has continuously occupied and exercised sovereign control over the zone, constructed the canal, and, since 1914, for a period of sixty years, operated the canal in a highly efficient manner without interruption, under the terms of the d treaties thereby honoring their obligat reasonable toll rates to the ships of all nations ations, without discrimination; and Whereas the long history of friendly and cooperative relations between the United States and the Republic of Panama are prone to deterioration by the dilution of any United States sovereignty or jurisdiction in the canal and zone; and Whereas from 1904 through June 30, 1974, the United States made a total investment in the canal, including defense, at a cost to the taxpayers of the United States of over $6,880,370,000; and Whereas the investment of the United States in the canal includes the sacrifices of many thousands of United States citizens who have worked to construct the canal and keep it operating smoothly and efficiently for the last sixty years; and Whereas Panama has, under the terms of the 1903 treaty and the 1936 and 1955 revisions thereof, been adequately compensated for the rights it granted to the United States, in such significantly beneficial manner that said compensation and correlated benefits have constituted. major portion of the economy of Panama giving it the highest per capita income in all of Central America; Hay-Pauncef- Hay-Bunau-Vari- For Freedom, Gary & Margaret Sevelin Peru, Iowa LETS MAINTAIN OUR FREEDOM 4-- F, NO MORE JOKES Congressional Resolution on Panama Canal Dear Editor: When it was said, All the Chinese in China are not worth one American boy, we turned our backs on China, let Japan take and soon found Manchuria, ourselves in the Second World War. a bloodbath that killed or injured a million American boys. The millions of Germans, Chinese. Hungarians, and others who have lived under communism and risked their lives to escape from it testify, It is better to fight and die than to live under communism. If the time to maintain freedom is not how, WHEN? If not in Southeast Asia. WHERE? If not by President Ford, by WHOM? To paraphrase Henrys words, Is our plush life so dear? Is peace in our time so sweet to be traded for allowing millions to be con- quered including ultimately ourselves by the communist slavemasters? . Freedom loving Americans, communist advance now. the stop The only thing the communists respect is FORCE and But has the Soviet POWER. propaganda in the USA been so effective that no one dares to use the most effective weapons we have? General Westmoreland has recommended we bomb strategic targets and cities in North Vietnam. Lefs stop dawdling and do it. Sincerely. David Hughes Horne Salt Lake City. Utah 84108 The fellow who does things to count usually doesn't stop to count them. ote lla above-mentione- and Whereas the canal is of vital and imperative importance to hemispheric defense and to the security of the United States and Panama; and Whereas approximately 70 per centum of canal traffic either originates or terminates in United States ports, making the continued operation of the canal by the United States vital to its economy; and . . . ereas Prsent negotiations under a February 7, 1 J74, statement of principles of agreement by United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and anamanian Foreign Minister Juan A. Tack constitute a clear and present danger to the security and the successful operation of thehemispheric canal by the United States under its treaty obligations; and hereas the present treaty negotiations are being conducted by our diplomatic representatives under a c oak oi unwarranted thus withholding from our people and their secrecy, representatives in Congress information vital to the security of the United States and its legitimate economic development; and . . . Whereas the Congress of.the United States is invested with constitutional responsibilities to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United Continued on page 9 |