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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page TO The Utah Independent January 8, 1976 READERS if we ask for it. We are asking for your help under the conditions that you will not force us to relinquish any of our rights and privileges guaranteed by the United States Constitution. These rights were purchased, not with gold and silver, but with' the precious lifeblood of many, many soldiers in the Revolutionary War. They were OUTLOOK Continued from Pag 9 It is our fear that such manipulation and control of our convenience will also result in lands, crops, and persons? In Amendment Five of the government takeover and control. Mr. Richard C. White, United States Constitution we are Chairman, House Subcommittee on Census and Statistics stated that such a census is vital to our Nation. Please explain specifically to us in what ways this is fact. We have before us a news item from the July 12, 1975 issue of the Wisconsin Agriculturist which stated in the Dairy Digest Column: More Wisconsin farmers leave dairying....939 state farmers quit dairying during the first 4 months of 1975, according to the 69th Brucellosis ring test made by Wisconsin department of agriculture. Only 859 farmers gave up dairying during all of 1974. As of April 30, 1975 there were 51,435 state dairy herds. Why?? How many of these fellow dairymen quit because it was in their own interest? In fact where is the vital hplp and assistance of the census in this case? quote: assured that we are not compelled to witness against ourselves, nor be deprived of life, liberty; or property, without due process of law. Is it not true that since only samples are taken (according to your own publications) from facts presented in this census, these facts may not represent the entire truth of the situations of ourselves and fellow farmers? Be it deliberate or unintentional, such of fact could conceivably be used to deprive us of property without just compensation, liberty by limiting or governing production and sale, and these in turn affect our lives. We feel strongly that this does not represent our own interest. We wish in NO way to contribute to the destruction of ourselves, our fellow farmers, fellow countrymen, or our country. So many, many of the questions in the census report require a current market value" to be stated. This requires a statement, a commitment of dollars and cents. What dollar value shall we use? What is the value of a dollar? Shall we obey Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution where it is stated in paragraph 5 that Congress ONLY may coin money? Is the Federal Reserve the Congress? Or what shall we do Dairymen have a lot of catching up to do. Statistics from the commerce department show farm income nationally is climbing at twice the rate it is in Wisconsin. National farm income climbed 109 between 1968 and 1973. But the income for Wisconsin farmers climbed only 55.2. Wisconsin had the lowest increase of any midwestem state. Minnesota saw a with Article 1, Section 10, 257 increase, Illinois 186, Iowa 1 which states that no Paragraph 157, Indiana 187 and Michigan state shalL.make anything but 72." gold and silver coin a tender in If your statistics are so vital to payment of debts?- By what stanour general welfare, why is this a dard shall we accurately compute genuine, published fact? Is it not the market value of our property? logical for us to feel that the facts Where may we obtain such coinage gained from such a census are and thereby remain faithful to our being used to help farmers right Constitution? out of business? No, your Under the Eighth Amendment brochure, Why This Census is United States Constitution, the of indeed inconclusive evidence for we are not supposed to suffer any in our own interest. We are certain we share with cruel or unusual punishment in Are we you an interest in the Constitution these United States. of the United States. WE cherish therefore to be subject to imit. We wish to comply with it. prisonment and fine under Title 13 Have you not, as a government of- of the U.S. Code if we choose to ficial, taken an oath to uphold it? defend our Constitutional right of Since your office has implied privacy? The Ninth Amendment states that our response to the census in The enumeration in the unacceptable, we would indeed wish to make it more acceptable. Constitution, of certain rights, May we please work together and shall not be construed to deny or figure out how to do it without our disparage others retained by the our constitutional people. We consider it a fact that sacrificing one of the rights we retain, whether rights? is that of not Your letters have warned us of mentioned or not, contribute to our the possibility of charging us with being required to Are we to be own destruction. willful" failure to respond. Please forced to do that which we despise be advised that we have responded, with every fiber of our beings? as we stated, and we stand ready to Under the 10th Amendment respond again and again so long as there shall be no slavery or inyour office shows us how we can do servitude in the United so without giving up our rights voluntary States except for punishment of guaranteed under the Constitution crime. Of what crime are we guilty of the United States. wish we if to maintain our personal According to Article 1, SecIs not the fine and imtion 2, Paragraph 3 of the U.S. privacy? Constitution we can find the prisonment described in Title 13 a servitude? authority given to conduct a census form of involuntary You mention the possibility of which constitutes a head count only. We can find no authority charging us with willful neglect" provided therein for questions to respond to the census. We have concerning farm acreage, live- responded. We have responded in stock, grain, or monetary a patriotic and a constitutional assessment values. manner, albeit under protest. If According to the Fourth you call our standing up for Amendment of the United States constitutional liberties willful, Constitution, we are assured that would you call the noble acts of the people of this Republic have Jefferson, Hancock, Washington, the right to be secure in their Adams, and Patrick and all call of them would you Henry persons, houses, papers, willful"? We feel this census is effects. Therefore, we ask you once prying needlessly into our personal information lives. May not the again to provide assistance to us in gleaned from such a census so very filling out the census report. You easily become a tool for have promised to provide such help - we are as LIBERTY IS NOT A RIGHT BUT A DUTY. Most sincerely, convinced now Henry E. Grottke Margaret L. Grottke Chili, Wisconsin A As of the date of this writing (Dec. 18) we have received no further correspondence either demands or retaliation from the Census Bureau. CubanTroops To the Editor: CUBAN TROOPS: CATS PAWS FOR SOVIET INTRIGUE is the emblazoned caption for the researched report in a recent issue (Dec. 8) of U.S. News & World Report that Cuban regulars now are deployed in 10 different countries operating more in the interests of Moscow than Havana. Eight of the countries are in Africa. The others Syria and South Yeman are in the Middle East. About 5,000 Cubans are presently fighting and dying in Angola to establish Soviet Union control over Portugals former colony. Until a very short time ca-efu- lly - ago, the Rockefeller-Eaton-Kissing- er scheme to normalize our relations with Castros communist Cuba, with threatened loss of our strategic naval base at Guantanamo Bay to Russia was, along with the surrender of our Canal Zone and Canal on the Isthmus of Panama, high on the agenda of our State Departments projected plans which it has maintained would help to establish Western Hemispheric solidarity. It will be remembered that our Vice President and our Secretary of State both have maintained that, in these matters, we should be governed by the consensus of the members of the Organization of American States. A majority of the members of organization vote that now consistently against the United States. In this they are to be compared with the members of the United Nations, the vast majority of whom consistently vote Russia and Soviet with against the United States. Only the other day, the U.N. General Assembly voted (the U.S. alone) for the 113-- 1 standing removal of our military installations from Guam, an organized territory of the United States with a delegate in Congress, and an important asset in our national defense. What now, Dr. Kissinger, what now? -- Paul Chiera When all else follow directions. fails, ARTIFICIAL FLUORIDATION AND CANCER Dear Editor: More than 25,000 people were reported by the National Health Federation and the Dean Burk Foundation to have died of cancer last year from drinking artificially fluoridated water. (See Rep. James J. Delaneys statement in the July 21, 1975 Congressional .) Record, pp. H. Unless you join with Rep. Delaney to demand immediate suspension of all artificial still more than fluoridation, 25,000 excess cancer deaths will continue to occur annually. Three times (March, April, and Nov. 75) the National Cancer Institute has denied any link between cancer and artificially fluoridated water. In the latest report the NCI spends 17 pages of text and tables to attempt to show no cancer link The to natural fluoridation. NHF and Dean Burk studies quoted by Delaney were directed exclusively to the process of artificial fluoridation. Californias Gov. Brown has invented a new phrase that covers what NCI had done. It is called The Squid Process. To Squid: to squirt ink upon a subject in such a manner as to confuse; to write memoranda so lengthy and complex as to be Under attack a unintelligible. squid squirts ink into the area of his opponents to create a smokes7173-7176- creen. Christine Russell accurately reported Nov. 19, 1975 in the Washington Star that the NCI study...does not attempt to explain the federations findings. Instead they have tried to use the squid process on the Congress and the public. Therefore, please do not answer this letter with a copy of NCIs 38 page Nov. report unless you, yourself, have read it, can understand it, and desquid it to show me where and how it dis- proves the evidence uncovered by Dr. Dean Burk and NHFs Dr. Yiamouyiannis. One innocent person will continue to die every 20 minutes from fluoridation linked cancer until the Congress has acted. I will be disturbed if Congress takes as long as NCI to act in this matter. On Nov. 17, 75 Rep. Delaney wrote a letter on NCIs gross mishandling of this issue to the Honorable Daniel- J. Flood, Chairman, Health Appropriations Subcommittee asking him to launch a complete investigation into the conduct of the Department of Health Education and Welfare and its agency, the National Cancer Institute and deal fittingly with both when they next approach you for appropriation monies." As a taxpayer I am 100 in support of Delaneys suggestion. I respectfully urge you to forward this letter to Representative Flood with a strong supporting letter of your own. - Respectfully yours, Fred M. Davis Lynchburg, Va. 24505 We are dealing here with ongoing, negligent homicide by agents of the federal government involving tens of thousands of avoidable deaths annually. C.R. Miller ANSWER TO WHY METRIC Dear Editor: This is my reply and opinion to the article, Why Metric? that appeared in the Dec. 25, 1975 issue of The Utah Independent. WHY METRIC? Why are we slowly being converted to the metric system? If the experts in Washington say it is more efficient, I am certain that their opinion would be supported by many who work with measurement calculations on the technical level. The metric system is based on simplicity. In our complex technological world, where measurements and mathematics is its language, I find that in using the ipetric system I make less mistakes used and save more time. it be I to consider and both systems an improvement like television over radio and computer over adding machine were improvements. It is true that our forefathers used our traditional English system of measurement; they also used and simple horses, buggies, measuring devices. If one approves of technical improvements I dont think that keeping a tradition is sufficient reason to continue using the English system if a better system is available. Not all people use measuring systems in the same manner. Scientists, engineers, and other technically trained people use measuring systems intimately as a language in making calculations. The majority of our fellow citizens use a measuring system to interpret and compare distances, speeds, sizes, etc. I dont believe that the real question involved is whether or not using the metric system will limit our freedoms that we endear, but whether or not the efficiency that the metric system may provide and the money that would be saved by reducing costly industrial mistakes and is worth the difficulties expenses that would arise in changing from one system to the other. Randy Robinson Student in Mining Engineering University of Utah Too Little Work We need not think that depression and inflation will run their course and that normal times will return. This will not happen until the market triumphs over government. We have been trying to consume more than we have been producing. The result is astronomical public and private debt. We have been trying to have more while working less. Too much money is being paid out to too many people for doing too little work. If we would cut out footd ragging and featherbedding and every one of us do a full days work every day, production would mount, jobs would multiply and we would soon work our way out of our difficulties. -- Howard Kershner i You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. G. K. Chesterton True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -- Dave Tyson Gentry |