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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 29f 1876 Page 2 The Utah Independent January 'jiiMtiaiiiimiiiimmmiaaimimmiinHiMiiinmi bmb The Independent Dedicated To The Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty iuR KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner The Horror of Controlled Medicine Brace yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, for you are going to be subjected to standardized medical care. HEW is now spending substantial chunks of your money to pay various medical organizations for the development of standards for the practice of medicine. Dr. Francis A. Davis, M.D., publisher of Private Practice , informs us that some of jhe things HEW is attempting to standardize are visits to doctors, physical diagnosis, laboratory tests, and drug therapy. We are all different, and there is no such thing as a standard reaction to a given situation nor a standard treatment that would give maximum benefit to all sufferers. What is good for one is poison to another. A standard treatment in any type of medical procedure would injure probably as many persons as it would help. Moreover, ones reactions vary with age, climate and other conditions. A good doctor takes all of these matters into account and diagnoses and prescribes accordingly. If HEW issues standards, every physician who does not follow them will be opening himself to malpractice suits. If he does follow the standards, he will not be serving his patients well. This is another example of the itch of the bureaucrat to control everything. In the end, it will lead to a static society. It is a good example of the von Misean law that every governmental intervention in the activities of the people results in less human satisfaction. ANSWER: Reverse the advance towards state med- icine. Economics Department None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -- Goethe mm Utah's Largest and 57 Fastest-Growin- g Oakland Avenue adopting the following policy: 1. Letters To The Editor or should be typed (double-spacewritten legibly on one side of an 8!xll sheet of paper. 2. We will publish these letters regularly as space permits. We appreciate the fact that some subjects require more length. In such instances they should be submitted as News Articles and will be subject to our regular editorial and policies current needs. News items Must Be Fully Documented. We want to print ONLY THE TRUTH! Many thanks. THE EDITOR Sorry we cannot print your requests for funds. Attn: Capt. Ferguson! Dear Capt. Joe H. Ferguson Your recent article concerning the Presidential veto of the Common Situs Picketing Bill was quite interesting and well-pu- t. I, too, have a few words of discontent with organized labor and the unfair advantages they are given over the rights of the balance of the populace. We have heard over the years the denial of the unions that their increases in salary is, in any way, related to the constant increase of the costs of goods and services, nor are they responsible in any way for the inflated prices. It just does not seem possible that these people, in their entirety, could be that One could more ignorant. assume that they feel reasonably the balance of us are too stupid to know what is wrong with our economy. NORTHWOOD INSTITUTE I POLICY NOTICE d) Corinthians 3:17 The Independent Subscription Weekly Salt Lake City , Utah 84115 There are many of us retired people on fixed incomes whose dollars saved, invested in Social Security, retirement insurance, etc., are now coming back to us in dollars worth 25 cents or less in the market place. We also take note of some of the highly technical titles J many of these union members embellish their particular talents with, such as sanitary engineers, machinist, etc., when in truth many of them would be hard pressed to come up with enough technical know-hoto properly oil the working parts of an ordinary Cedar Bed Slat. The only thing that is keeping their jobs is the unfairness of their grievance committee. The constant yammer of these union people is for increases in salary to match the rising costs of I living. It takes no mental giant to realize that the horse you are riding on the merry-go-rounever catches up with the one in front of it. We, all of us who possess an iota of wisdom, can see that the ordinary working stiff cannot afford an expensive home, 2 cars in the garage, a camper trailer, a power boat, etc., on the amount of money he deserves for his efforts. We who arc on fixed incomes cannot afford these things for ourselves, which should make it quite clear that wc can't, nor should we be forced to, help pay for his. I was a production manager w I I Assorted copies older than 2 months 12 25C 25 for $5.00 I I 50 for $9.00 Subscriptions: USA $10.00 per year Foreign $15.00 per year The Name nd 100 for $17.50 UTAH INDEPENDENT 1 (First) (Last) (Middle) Address (Number And Street) I each 12 for $2.75 for S1.00 (Staw) (&P Code) TOM ANDERSON We like to receive Letters To The Editor. Frequently, however, these letters are much too long for us to use. For this reason, we are Morality, and Truth Constitution, Liberty, READERS OUTLOOK Continued on page 8 WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? In years of peace (he) with his aides, faced the problems of economic decay. To overcome depression. ..he substituted a managed economy for the law of supply and demand. ..He distributed food to the poor at half the marked price or free, and undertook extensive public works to appease the unemployed.. .Gradually... the majority of industrial establishments and guilds were brought under the control of the corporate state. Butchers, bakers, masons, builders, blowers, iron-worker- glass s, ruled by engravers, were detailed governmental regulations. The various corporations were more like minor supervisors of their own concerns on behalf of the state than their owners; they were themselves in bondage to the officials of the various departments... ...In every large town, the state became a powerful employer.. .standing head and shoulders above the private industrialists, who were in any case crushed by taxation. Such a system could not work without price control. (So he)...issued an Edictum de pretiis, dictating maximum legal prices or wages for all important articles or services in the Empire. Its preamble attacks monopolists who, in an economy of scarcity, had kept goods from the market to raise prices: Who is.. .so devoid of human feeling as not to see that immoderate prices are widespread in the markets of our cities, and that the passion for gain is lessened neither by plentiful supplies nor by fruitful years? So. ..that evil men reckon it their loss if abundance comes. These are men whose aim it is to restrain general prosperity. ..to seek usurious and ruinous returns. ..Avarice rages throughout the world.... The Edict was until our time the most famous example of an attempt to replace economic laws by governmental decree. Tradesmen concealed their scarcities became more acute than beforehand the Edict had to be relaxed to restore production and distribution. The weakness of this managed economy lay in its commodities, administrative cost...The bureaucrats found their task too for great human integrity, their surveillance too sporadic for the evasive ingenuity of men. To support the bureaucracy, the court, the army, the building program, and the dole, taxation rose to unprecedented peaks of ubiquitous continuity. As the state had not yet discovered the plan of public borrowing to conceal its wastefulness and postpone its reckoning, the cost of each years operations had to be met from each years revenue.. No, the above is not exactly a prediction of what will happen soon, although it well might. It is, rather, a description of the regime of the Roman Emperor, Diocletian, as described by Will Durant in his The Story of Civilization, published in 1944. So what have we learned since the fourth century A.D.? Who was it who said: What we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history? -- American Way Features Readers comments and questions are . welcome. The Please write us at American Way Features Box 1098, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. The IRS constantly violates the Fifth Amendment, which states that "No person . shall be compelled in a criminal case to be a witness against himself... Since income tax returns must Ik filed on penulty of heuvy fines und imprisonment and since they must be filed under penalties of Hrjury, d(Ks not uny information so obtained and used in u criminal prosecution constitute evidence obtained under duress from the accused? NAMUYVI. STOP ABORTION IM TOO YOUNG TO DIE! MsrrUUIIT Destroy by all means the weapons supply and discipline of your opponent. Cover with ridicule their old traditions and heritage. Be generous in your offers and rewards to purchase information or accomplices. |