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Show Auguat 12, 1976 Tha Utah Independent Page 3 The Paper Thai Dare To Taka A Stand DR. LYMAN J. OLSEN PROBLEM SOLVER By is $34,493,276 (Utah Fdn.) and it menincluded the $1. I tioned above. wonder why Dr. Olsen doesn't volunteer this vital information to the people when he is asking them to make a very important decision? 75-mill- Thomas O. Breitling Dr. Lyman J. Olsen of the Utah Board of Health is a problem solver. I have already mentioned problem solvers in my article entitled Problems Are In The Mind Of The Problem Solver, (TUI, 4 1576). The problem which Dr. Olsen is determined to solve is what he considers to be the lack of fluoride in water within the boundaries of the State of Utah. ON COURSE WHAT'S THE PROBLEM So, whats the problem? Is it dental caries? No, not really. No one seems to know what dental caries costs nor what can be saved in cost of repairing damage to teeth caused by dental caries. All that seems to be known at this time is that some natural waters in the By Thomas (XBreitling state contain less than 1 ppm (1 many years. From the figures given you milligram per liter) of fluoride ion, can calculate that our and this is the only definition of the expenditure for operative dentistry problem that I keep hearing over including caries has been 16 of and over, our total dental expenditures, What is Dr. Olsen going to put in FUNK & WAGNALLS the water to reduce the 84 by 2 3? ENCY CLOPEDIA y, The Universal Standard Incidentally, $1,000 for four people for 32 years is less than $8 cyclopedia is an abridgment of The New Funk & Wagnalls Enper person per year. cyclopedia. On page 2323 is found the followmg statement: The STATE COST OF DENTAL exact cause of the most important INSURANCE Dr. Olsen has thrown around dental disease, caries, is unknown, quite a few figures on health and and therefore some uncertainty (implied) dental costs to the State, exists as to the true value of many If you want the facts you can see prophylactic measures. Diet and the Utah Foundations Statistical general nutrition apparently play Review of Government in Utah, an important role." We can point out that diet 1976 Edition, page 46. Total dental covers both positive and negative cost reported is as follows: . RECKLESS CONGRESS VOTES $3.95 BILLION BOONDOGGLE Captain Joe H. Ferguson 32-ye- ar problem, lack of fluoride in the water seems to be the problem. Dr. Olsen does not clearly say it in this but he repeatedly says things which allow this induction. For example, not even in the long term does he ever allow the possibility that treatment En-wa- than other fluoridation of .water supplies could be used to reduce or prevent the incidence of dental caries among the public at large. In fact, on July. 1 Dr. Olsen said, The only real alternative is fluoridating the water supplies. THE UNIVERSAL STANDARD ENCYCLOPEDIA My edition of The Universal Standard Encyclopedia has an article on Dentistry which begins on page 2319 and ends on page 2323. If you read the article you will see why "Dr, Olsen does not define the problem as dental caries. On page 2320 the article states, The principal branches of dentistry are oral surgery, operative periodontia, dentistry, or dental prostheses, and orthodontia. Using our family of seven (five children) as an example, over the 32 years of our marriage we .have spent, about $2,900 on orthodontia, about $350 for prosthodontia, about $7Q0 to about $1,200 for $1,000 for cleaning (which is related to periodontia), and about $1,000 for operative dentistry including the repair of damage caused by caries, The reason I say including repair damage caused by caries is that we have biennial costs for fillings which are merely replacement of loose fillings or repair of fillings' crached when I bite a bone in hamburger or sausage. T havent had caries in Families with Dependent Children $1,408,388 General Assistance 6,664 Old-AAssistance 66,670 ' Aid to the Blind 3,621 Aid to the Disabled 189,218 Child Care 91,140 GROSS TOTALS $1,765,701 -Adjustment 16,359 NET TOTALS $1,749,34- 2- - -Note that the child care dental foods. That is, some food cost at $91,140 is less than the positively improve quality of teeth $120,000 per year that Dr. Olsen and others have a negative action. said that fluoridation of public Other variables known to have inwater supplies will cost. If we as- fluence on incidence of caries are sume that 16 of the $1,408,388 occlusion, heredity, and tooth- for families with dependent cleaning habits. With six variables children is spent for caries the to be considered, we can have 720 amount is $225 ,342. .Then if we can sets of conditions which can affect save 23 of that amount by the incidence of caries. Again, this fluoridating water the amount is one more good reason why Dr. saved is 5150,228 a year Within Olsen likes to address himself to the realm of estimating accuracy the problem of how much fluoride there is no difference between this we have in the water, not how to figure and the $120,000, given the prevent dental caries. fact that we assume the 16 and m sume the 23. ge pros-thodon- tia . X-ra-ys, . Ur. Professor of Dobriansky Economics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Chairman of the Ukrainian Catholic Studies Foundation, and Chairman of the National Captive Nations Committee. He has written 17 major books on Communism. is It is with sadness and a deep sense of tragedy that we view South Vietnam and Cambodia as the most recent additions to the long . list of captive nations. Some apologists are already indulging in unrealistic . rationalizations about a pn'ited Vietnam, and coalition government. But the glaring fact is that RELKI0N 1961: States cannot require public officials to declare their belief in God. 1962: State officials may not compose a prayer to be recited in public schools. 1963: Recitation of the Lords Prayer or reading from the Bible cannot be required in public schools. OBSCENITY 1957: Rules against obscene publications were liberalized. RACE RELATIONS 1964: Civil Rights Act forbidding racial discrimination in places of public accommodation is constitutional. 1967: Calif, cannot make its property owner laws. 1966: Racial d discrimination was forbidden in all housing. 1966: several state laws concerning ADC and immorality. A couple can now live together and raise children at tax payers expense as long as the couple do not marry. Over-rule- as-fro- whatever Incidentally, - The figure happened to the Dr. Olsen has used? Well, to be $40-milli- on precise, Utahs figure for the total cost of State paid medical services for the period ending June 30, 1975 The New Captiive Nations Editors note: The reckless Democratic-controlle- d congress recen3.95 voted to billion dollars of the taxpayers tly spend on another money giant boondoggle. It is called the Public Works Bill. Ostensibly, it was enacted to create jobs and reduce unemployment. But history has shown that these types of boondoggles do exactly the opposite. The big spenders in Washington say that such federal spending creates jobs and stimulates the economy. But they conveniently ignore the effect that taking the money from the taxpayers has upon the economy. Financing such boondoggles must come from one of two sources. The first is from taxes. The more the federal government takes in taxes, the less the taxpaying citizens have to spend. The result? Fewer purchases of automobiles, washing machines, homes and clothes, a depressed economy and a loss of jobs. If the government does not pay for these boondoggles with tax monies, they must borrow to do so. The first source of credit for the federal government is the When the government private lending institutions. borrows from these sources, it depletes the amount available for private investment capital. For example, in 1975, the federal government took 50.9 of all available credit. The result? Higher interest rates, a shortage of investment capital, and a depressed economy. The other source of borrowing is from the Federal Reserve. But the Federal Reserve does not loan money already in existence it merely runs some more off the printing presses. The result more inflation! Today's high taxes, inflation, recession and unemployment can be traced directly to reckless speeding by a reckless congress bn programs such as this S3.95 billion make-wor- k program. -- Gottfried another Great' Depression, uncontrolled inflation, financial collapse, about uncertainty and democratic as nation after imperialist. Communist mid-197- 5, ; fallen under the Comintern's sway and around, the' world the despairing whispers rise,, Whos next?' Laos? Thailand? Republic of China? South Korea? The Philippines? In this unhappy period we . hear d oomsday ' and Oakland Avenue Subscription Weekly g Salt Lake City I , Utah 84115 25$ each 25 for $5.00 B Subscriptions: USA $1000 per year Foreign $15.00 per year 50 for $9.00 100 for $17.50 redirection of our policy toward the East, primarily toward The Soviet UTAH INDEPENDENT Russia! . I share none of the grim doomsday outlooki concerning the fate of the West, and I believe that this disaster course is needless.. For example, our costs in Vietnam would have been meager, as expected, had Continued on page 5 . I I 12 for $2.75 l government social upheaval. In general all of this, it is clear that we need a basic reassessment nation falls before Fastest-Growin- Assorted copies older than 2 months 12 for $1.00 Haberier civilization, tragic events power, with its ultimate center in Moscow. By no less than 29 independent nations had 57 predictions about the decline of Western demonstrate clearly the validity of the Domino Theory Utah's Largest and Few monopolies could survive without government protection of one sort or another. two free and determined nations have fallen under Communist domination. These Independent Name 1 (First) (Lest) (Middle) Address (Number And Street) L--- - (Stew) (Zip Code! I |