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Show Page 2 The Utah Independent June 5, 1975 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand forms the openings, which can The Constitution The Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, KERSHNER'S COMMENTARY Howard Kershner FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and New Zealand are taking The bell is tolling in Vietnam not only for account of their uncertain and all of the unfortunate people of that positions in the shadow of the region, but for the American rising communist menace. More well. as than The wrong decisions leading 50,000 people sold iers lost their lives, a quarter of to this disaster in Asia are our a million were wounded and government's desertion of Chiang k disabled, many of them for life, and and the backing of the billions of dollars went down the Mao communists in China, the drain because of our many unwise refusal to allow MacArthur to win Now the war in Korea and the policy of foreign policy decisions. some millions of South Vietnamese containment in South .Vietnam people, who had faith in our rather than one of administering a promise to defend them, will lose smashing defeat to the communist their lives, many of them by cruel forces. The people who wanted torture. Moreover, faith in and peace at any price have finally honor for our country is rapidly gotten their way and it will be the disappearing. All of Asia will now peace of death and slavery. The defeat and extinction of a carefully consider the advisability of making whatever arrangement brave little country in South that may be possible with the Vietnam that wanted to be free, communists rather than continue marks the shattering defeat of the to trust in the United States to U.S. policy of containment and detente. with an Detente defend them. Taiwan is in jeopardy, the implacable enemy is nothing more ' nor less than trusting him while he government of the Philippine is Islands rethinking its policy; builds his strength until he is able Japan and South Korea are to strangle the simpleton who reconsidering; Thailand is already trusted him. Indo-Chin- a. Kai-she- rn - mm I The I Utah's Largest and 57 I I Neither will our- defeat be confined to the Far East. It will have Fastest-Growin- Oakland Avenue g older 2 than months 12 for $1.00 l I Subscriptions: USA $10.00 per strong year Foreign $15.00 per year reverberations Continued on page 4 Independent Subscription Weekly Salt Lake City Assorted copies , Utah 84115 25C each 12 for $2.75 25 for $5.00 50 for $9.00 100 for $17.50 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Name Address I 1 DISPOSAL Morality, and Truth SlIinTlflimiTiiiassisasssaissaasistsiHiiiSBi far-easte- SOME MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION Ardette R. McLauchlan Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 asking Americans to leave and it is doubtful if any country will retain faith in or respect for the United States. Already. Australia allow slight movement. Evans also pointed out that when an earth mass weighing millions of pounds moves even slightly, thousands of foot-po- u nds of energy are released . often give Conservatives to the ammunition opposition by ideas erroneous promulgating about our Constitution. If we are to use the Constitution effectively, we must be sure to use it correctly. ITOM BREITLING do the to we are Otherwise, apt cause of Liberty more harm than EARTHQUAKES AND WELLS good. By Thomas O. Breitling We should demand our rights." We can waive our rights. On March 27. 1975 people in hostile to northern Utah and southern Idaho These two ideas are American philosophy. felt a sharp and somewhat Demanding" our rights implies sustained earthquake, After a few that we don't have them, and that days the local newspapers some person can grant them to us. indicated that the epicenter of the The fact is that we were born with quake was apparently close to our rights. They cannot be lost, Malad City, Idaho. The cause of waived, taken away, nor granted the quake was slippage along a by any human. Our Creator gave fault which is tied in with the them to us. and we have them, no Wasatch Fault that is along the matter what we do, or anyone else east side of Salt Lake Valley. It was Government a kind of spooky experience, does to us. interference may prevent us from because we were on an upper floor practicing our rights, but then it is of a rather old building in up to us to take action to dissolve downtown Salt Lake City the night that interference. it happened. Chandeliers swung, Constitutional and The term large plate glass windows rights" and the erroneous title. creaked. We were reminded of Bill of Rights" together imply that Denver back in the early sixties our rights are listed in the when that used to experience city Constitution and the First Ten so many quakes during a year. Amendments. They are not, and God forbid that they ever shall be. SUDDEN RASH OF QUAKES The federal government has In the Denver case the mystery Constitutional rights, but the of a sudden rash of earthquakes American people do not. We have was apparently solved when a Constitutionally protected rights, a Denver area geologist plotted the vital difference. As our Founding epicenter of the many earthquakes Fathers stressed. Bills of Rights and found that they all centered have no place in constitutions very close to Rocky Mountain founded on the power of the Arsenal's disposal well northeast of people. (Federalists. Par. Denver. Evans then developed a There is a dangerous notion hypothesis that the disposal well afloat to the effect that the was, itself, the cause of the earth 0) Constitution SHUT WELL DOWN The Arsenal then decided to shut, down the disposal well, and this was done. A longer than usual period for Denver quakes went by before the next one was felt, and it was milder than the immediately previous one had been. But many people asked how could the quakes continue, if the well had been To this Evans conjectured that there was still the original liquid down there serving as lubricant, and he reminded everyone that aftershocks are very common after an earthquake has occurred. Finally, the quakes died stopped. We phoned POST in April out completely. DENVER THE and learned that for the past several years no quakes have been reported in that area. RELATED TO UTAH WELL QUAKE? ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL for April 1975 there is a short In s McGraw-Hill- that says the article U.S. a Geological Survey drilled successful geothermal well about 14 miles south of Malta. Idaho.. The test well produced a flow of about .000 gpm at a temperature of 293 F from a depth of about 4.500 ft...." The U.S.G.S. report then went on to say. The thermal area appears to be located at the intersection of a major north-sout- h fault system that bounds the east side of the Jim Sage Mountains and a less fracture 1 well-defin- ed system that seems northeastward. VERY to run HIGH HOT WATER FLOW' RATE is It logical to conclude that the steam which comes from the CAN well under conditions of DEMONSTRATION In order to prove his atmospheric pressure was hot hypothesis Evans built a slightly water at the depth of 4,500 feet inclined plane of wood, poked below the surface, because its holes in the bottom of a beer can temperature was not supercritical. with an ice pick, and was then In flowing up the pipeline at the ready for the demonstration. In rate of .440,000 gallons a day. the putting on the demonstration. outflow of hot water as steam Evans would first set the empty can seems certain to cause a change in on the inclined plane, and that is all subsurface conditions. Where it would do just sit there. Then he there was no void before, because it would pour a very small quantity was filled by hot water under high of water into the can and it would pressure, after several days of immediately slide down the plane outflow there must have been to the bottom. As the water ran pressure relief underground. This through the holes it .lubricated the change of pressure, combined with can with respect to the plane and the remaining hot water providing sliding took place. Evans would the lubricant, could have caused then point out that the liquid from earth movement along the major the injection well was having the north-sout- h fault" at a later time. Did this same effect on rocks underground happen? Could it happen as the water had on the beer can. again, especially if many more SOME DO NOT BELIEVE geothermal wells arc drilled and The almost immediate allowed to flow at such high rates? response to Evans hypothesis was disbelief by many. These skeptics SENATOR MOSS SHOULD INVESTIGATE pointed out that while Evans beer While it seems that Senator can was free to move when the lubricant was supplied, the rocks Frank E. (Ted) Moss is no longer deep underground arc bound by on the Insular and Interior Affairs other rocks and cannot move. To Committee of the U.S. Senate, he this Evans rejoined that he could still might be interested in the been picked movements. away until only the framework remains." This idea is vague, and BEER has can mean almost anything. What is the framework of the Constitution? Actually, it has none. It is the framework upon which everything else rests. Every word and punctuation mark in it is equally important. ,No part of it can be changed or abolished except by Constitutional amendment. It may be ignored, misunderstood and disobeyed. It has been badly unbalanced by it remains the but amendments, Supreme Law of the Land. Supreme Court decisions cannot pick it away, because the Co.urt decisions affect only the CASES in which they are made. It is a great mystery why this simple fact is not acted upon by the American people. The Supreme Court is only a court. The title Supreme" refers ' only to the fact that it is the highest court. No kind of powers are conferred upon it that make it different in character from any Other court Its decisions are not national law. It can only interpret and apply already existing law to individual cases, as docs any other court. Only if the American people accept Supreme Court decisions as affecting the whole country will the decisions have the effect of national law. But that is our own fault, not the Supreme Court's, nor the Constitution's. It is suicidal to ever concede that the Constitution can be picked away" or changed in any way except as ordered in Article V. Continued on page 3 1 take people into underground mines and tunnels show some rather large openings along fault lines. When the earth faults or tears, it does not form a perfectly straight line in most cases, and the wavy surfaces which would match in their original location do not match in a new location. This mismatch and e of earthquakes that could affect the State of Utah. The experience of Denver strongly indicates that earthquakes can be inadvertently caused by man. Now that the accidental way js known, it would not be impossible to cause such many possibility man-mad- quakes deliberately. Continued on page 3 . |
