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Show The Paper That Dares To Take 1975 Page 10 The Utah Independent August 28, OUTLOOK READERS Continued from page 2 Look around you! God has given us lots to be happy about. Put a little Joy in your lives! My future looks bright! Betty Wines Paradise, Calif. 9S969 God grant me the Serenity to accept the things 1 cannot change Courage to change the things I can And the Wisdom to know the difference." Ed. Note: You are so right! We rejoice in all the bounteous blessings of the Lord and give thanks for them night and morning. We are also aware that When thou art He has said: converted, warn thv brethren We are the watchmen on the tower, warning the people. Even if they do not heed our cry, our hands are clean from the blood and sins of this generation. Lets band together and change the things we can while theres still time. A LETTER OF 1969!!! Editor: Here is a letter to the editor 1 submitted to the Statesman of Boise on July 16, 1969 soon after the death of Westbrook Pegler. Since he had been one of the Statesmans good shipped to London. Later, in Des Moines he drew $17.30 per week to start as a city side reporter and chalk -- plate comic artist, and paid $2.30 a week for a room which he shared with another reporter who got only $13 per week (because he was a green hand whereas I had run to fires and murders for more' than a year in Chicago and was a very intellectual and worldly fellow, even on an education which has never broken the barrier into the junior year in high school) He I never had a sitting writes, room until 1 was married in 1922 and blundered into a beautiful new world of grace and elegance. I have read that at his peak, Pegler made as much as $130,000 a year. James Kilpatrick called him the last of the great newspaper writers..." Pegler closes his article of March 21, with these words, My old man was absolutely flat more than a year and in hock to the loan sharks far beyond the horizon, but he wangled a pass on the old Northwestern down to Chicago and sent for us and went on to make a great reputation as a writer and reporter and as a rough and tumble fighter, too, whenever anyone called him out. I am proud to be the heir to all that. None of us ever has drawn a nickel of relief, old age or unemployment and I look the whole world in the face, for I owe not any man. regular columnists for a number of years 1 Mabel M. Sturgis thought it would be a welcome item Boise. Idaho 83702 for their paper, but it evidently came to rest in their wastebasket. HUNGRY FOR KNOWLEDGE Now looking over my files it just seems to me that during our Gentlemen: it would be something Enclosed is a check in the amount of $17.00 for 17 gift interesting to read, so here it is: Those who quail at the truth subscriptions. never liked the columns of I received my first copy of I Westbrook Pegler, but not only your publication from a friend and read and admired them, but certainly appreciated her file a from and them of clipped kept thoughtfulness as I found it most 1942 on. 1 am saddened at his informative and enlightening. As a passing on. legislative secretary and aide I wrote to him once about a employed by the Illinois General Mercer Cook story in the Americas Assembly, 1 have been engaged in telling of a dog named Tinky who more than 9 months of research on had learned to read and the school problems in our local understand human conversation. schools I originally wastarrying He growled whenever names such out duties assigned in my line of as Hitler, Stalin, Talmadge or work concerning financial in were mentioned difficulties being encountered in McCarthy conversation. The unnuendo was our schools but since 1 have 3 children myself, my very plain two Americans classed school-ag- e with two foreign outlaws." interest became more than an 1 Also in the same letter told of academic one. What I discovered visiting the church in Alexandria, during this time (almost 7 da. per Va. where George Washington week pursuit) grieved me is his and where pew worshipped deeply.. .publications such as yours indicated by an engraved silver have merely confirmed my plate. The second time 1 visited the fears.. .our only hope, as you well church some years later, there was know, is in spreading the word of a second silver plate inscribed with the evil intents and the education of the information that on a certain mothers and fathers so as to be able date Franklin D. Roosevelt and to recognize these threats and Winston Churchill sat in that pew. imminent dangers to families and This seemed a cheap desecration to our government and country. You me by a couple of phonies. are to be commended on the 1 excellent job you are doing. Pegler wrote me as follows: can don't be know done what just I have about such things as that story. If I already spoken before 3 get time I will go to the church in groups upon request the most Alex and unscrew that plate and recent ' was at a textbook and boil it down and shoot it at La Boca curriculum seminar I conducted Grande. for the benefit of Phyllis Schlafiys In the Statesman of March 21 , anti-ERworkers who met at a 1938 he gave a short sketch of local hotel here in Spfid. on July starting out on his own, in 1913 23th. I outlined just where to look when he was 18. With $20 of for the evils being introduced into earnings in his pocket and a cheap our schools (sex education, suitcase containing all his humanism, etc.) and also outlined possessions, he made his way to just what they could do about One Chicago. In June of 1916 he had combating these attacks. He then suggestion was that they educate accumulated $100. A themselves more fully by reading the National Educator and the UTAH INDEPENDENT. I then told them that if they would give me $1 each I would send their names in fora trial subscription....! really believe they will become regular subscribers.. ..They (men & women.. .a number of them teachers) were most eager to learn more.... I would greatly appreciate your allowing me to continue to solicit subscriptions for your paper each time I give a talk. I wish I had the money to buy extras so I could give them out as samples after each talk but this, of course, would be impossible for me to do since I am doing this on my own without any financial support. One of the men present has nowsked me to speak before the St. Agnes School parents (grade school where my son also attends). My original intent was to just mail people literature but it seems I am being pushed along they spend their money. I would suggest that your Mr. Halliday has not done his home work. If you desire I will be pleased to pursue details on the subject further, but not over the phone in the middle of the night. yours, Very truly ar Rip-Off- s There is a new pattern of Special clients racketeering: are put on welfare rolls and get preferred status, using welfare as a cover for syndicated crime operations. Over the past decade billions have been stolen from welfare budgets by standardized Mrs. Thomas E. (Donna) Hall Springfield, Illinois 62703 Administrator Executive Editor Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Gty, Utah Dear Sir: large articles like this will help stir one up. I do not consider this article a complete nor a fair job of Mr. Halliday has reporting. covered well the proponents of the supported secreting Commissioner Wood with his motion to withdraw from the FCAOG. I still do not know who wrote the original resolution, but that is immaterial. It is a good resolution, called a spade a spade, was calculated to generate some attention and it did. It is very evident we have kicked someones Sacred Cow". Mr. Halliday has quoted liberally a Mr. Marchant, a Mr. Pugmire and a Mr. Chamberlain. 1 dont know what they purport to be experts on, except castigating Commissioners, but I believe they arc fronting for someone else. I think Mr. Halliday knows who but conveniently omits the reference. Relative to the industrial nugget being propelled to St. George, it will remain to be seen what that amounts to. I would not call an unneeded, expensive, staff such as that sponsored by the Steering Committee of the FCAOG, an It is a Industrial Nugget. tax-support- ed stolen prostitution, so-call- ed by Medicaid, social child care, training programs, work incentive grants, emergency assistance, etc., to the County workers who know exactly who is committing fraud, but need their jobs. The Welfare Administrator reported also that among the mob ripoffs using the welfare system as a front in at least one county, are: stolen goods, stolen check rings, real estate swindles, narcotics pushing, gun stealing, If there was not a storm, unjustified a services, a Storm". completely in industrial stamps, reference to the article by your staff writer, a Mr. Robert S. Halliday, which appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday August 3, 1973, entitled Iron Countys Secession Stirs Up is in presented Welfare state reported the following: From the County Director who helps the ineligible client on to ADC (Aid to Dependent Children) and into the syndicate, along with the allied aids of food HALLIDAYS STORM resolution rip-off- s. a Recently, mid-weste- rn tax by Bob Salter Welfare property, protection rackets and even a call-gisyndicate switchboard set up in a welfare office. The Administrator was at first angered at a Case Worker that of his clients were 25 rl ' frauds were ineligible. He reported to his Chief and was informed that if you work to terminate the ineligible persons or families or to stop the overpayments you dont get promoted -you get transferred or fired. The Administrators charges were checked out by the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspectors and by Victor Riesel and were found to be factual. and 15 Th e d istinguished columnist, Victor Riesel, began writing of massive welfare thefts several years ago. Only in March of this year did HEW Secretary Weinberger finally admit that millions of dollars have been lost annually from welfare budgets through and thievery. Unless a great many people ineligibility flood Washington with complaints, welfare rackets will continue to rob us. -- Network of Patriotic Letter Writers unnecessary, exercise that contributes nothing to society except an added tax burden. At my last reading all but one of the five on the FCAOG staff, being paid between $30 and $100 thousand annually, arc from Washington County. Where do you suppose ATTN: UTAH VOTERS lysis Full text of proposed Recall Bill of proposed Recall 2 copies of each for $1.00 Send to UTAH INDEPENDENT, ,57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt LakeGty, Utah 841 15. Bill-Ana- i SALTER SAYS Rub Out the speaking Association but has taken little time to examine the other side. His interview with me was a phone call that awakened me late at night, wherein he asked about three direct questions, and then misquoted one of my answers. Mr. Halliday makes a big issue about the origin of the ; Iron County Commissioners Parowan, Utah 84761 Thank you. expensive Stand G. D. MacDonald, Chairman circuit.... This A As 1 reflect back over my life, the times and people I remember best, strangely enough, were not the leaders of our government. I have known the rich and the poor, the senators, congressmen, governors and many lesser officials, but none really gave me memories that tug at my heart. The times that bring a tear to my eye are more nebulous, yet more real. Like the time Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and 1 did a radio show together. Imagine three of us together on one piano at one time. There was You cannot be truth here. dishonest musically. And, would you believe I didnt record it it was recorded only in my memory. Or the time a man named George Ogden tried to describe how he used to grunt up alligators in Florida on my show. The telephone lines were tied up for an hour. George used to play a five string banjo and dance in taverns and saloons while someone passed the hat. This gave him a grubstake I for his prospecting trips. know I spent a year in the moun; tains with him. Once when we were our way east with a tab show, we passed through a town high in the mountains of Colorado. It was during an election campaign and some politicians came to town bringing enough booze to get the whole town drunk. The barrels were stacked on saw horses on the sidewalk. As careful as we were, driving at a crawl, we managed to run into one of the drunks who staggered into our car. The crowd got so unruly that I had to hold them off with a pistol from the roof of our car until some of our people ran for the police. No, this wasnt bravery, just self preservation. Or the time at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago when the pit The elevator malfunctioned. musicians enter the pit from the basement, punch a button and the whole thing comes up to theatre level. Inside the pit elevator was a smaller elevator. Somehow, the small one malfunctioned and rose to stage level. When I opened the door to the pit, there, hanging by one leg on the small elevator, was my nine foot grand piano. The theatre was full and the show was due. How could 1 ever forget!!! How could I forget the two middle-age- d ladies who took me off the street and bought me a bowl of soup that extremely cold winter I was walking home from a turkey. I had no topcoat. My body was covered with newspapers under what clothes I had. My feet were numb and I was too proud to beg. God bless them, wherever they are. These are some of the thoughts, some of the things that one-nightin- g" happen to build whatever character aman has. 'k'k'k'k'k'k ick Fear is the greatest of all inventors. French Proverb |