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Show ! : I j - : November 18, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 3 ; The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand THREE WHEN FREEMEN SHALL STAND Grand Rapids, Mich. A superbly-writte- n bombshell of a book by U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, highly visible spokesman at the Republican National Convention, has been rushed to press by Zondervan Publishing House, ac- cording to Robert K,. DeVries, Executive Vice President of the firm. In When Free Men Shall Stand Sen. Helms takes the Washington bureaucracy to task free-taxifor its ways, and offers an insiders look at the facts of current political life bringing readers to a realization of the economic and personal freedoms being stolen away at an alarming rate by big government in the 70s. Sen. Helms reveals all the facts and figures including some free-spendin- g, of ng Washingtons best-ke- pt regarding the federal budget, government waste, causes inflation, foreign aid, abortion on demand, elimination of school prayer, the busing controversy, and more. For forty years, an unending of deals the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society, not to men- tion court decisions tending in the same direction have regimented our people and our economy and federalized almost every human enterprise, insists the author in his They have set up a gigan- tic scheme for redistributing the wealth which rewards the indolent and penalizes the hard working, he adds, setting the tone for the theme of the book. Freedom each individuals freedom to reach for his own dream is the dominant subject around which Sen. Helms weaves his sobering discourse. And is. For it sobering example: On taxation: According to tax foundation, the average taxpayer works from January 1 to April 30 for the sole benefit of the government. All sorts of devices have been contrived to get the possible feathers from the goose with the fewest possible secrets ... On government spending: . .. hardly a member of Congress for the last thirty years has had the vaguest notion about the contents of the (federal) budget. If you started when the budget was sub- mitted, and you worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, you would not be ready to vote on the FY 1977 budget until July 21, 2020. It would take you long to study the budget at a million dollars an hour. On inflation: The fact is that spending increases are fueled by in- creasing deficits, as high as $76 billion in 1976 alone. For sheer hypocrisy, nothing can beat the nerve of politicians who constantly permit the government to spend beyond its means, and then blame the resulting inflation on the greediness of the citizens. On foreign aid: The really stupendous coverup of modern times has hot been Watergate at all. but the vast sums of money this country has exported overseas . . . to many foreign countries which could not be considered underdeveloped by any stretch of innovations and and miracles of more culture, more technology, leisure and a higher degree of religious freedom than found anywhere else in the world today, states the author. We define an income level which is poverty at higher than the median income in the workers paradise, the Soviet Union! he adds, For a politician who lashes out at the god we have made of Helms certainly government, practices what he preaches. For example, he puts in seventy to eighty hours of work each week much of it on the floor of the Senate, as he puts it, guarding In more than 2,200 the bridge. roll call votes during his first three-o- f lf years, he has been present and voting 97 of the time one of the best records in the Senate. In those same half years. Helms has returned to the U.S. Treasury $59 1,000 of the funds allocated for his official use. -He has never taken a junket at taxpayer expense. Even when he flies on Air Force One with the president, he sends his personal check equivalent to class commercial air fare to the White House in payment for his flight. He has also informed the Secretary of the Senate that when he is away working on behalf of a political candidate when the Senate is in session, he will return that portion of his salary to the U.S. Treasury and this he has done. One oftheGOPs fastest rising stars, U. S. Senator Helms took of-tfice in January, 1973, the first Republican to do so from North Carolina in a century. He serves on ' the Committee On Agriculture and Forestry, the Committee On Ban-mo- st king. Housing and Urban affairs, the Joint Committee On Congres-squawk- s. sional Operations, and is Vice Chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, He is the recipient of the conveniences and-a-ha- three-and-a-barra- ge so-call- ed first-prefa- ce. he Outstanding Service Award presented annually by the Council Against Communist Aggression and the Richard Henry Award for steadfastly defending the liberties f the American people, as well as the Order of Lafayette Freedom Award. He also holds the Wat-th- at chdog of the Treasury Award and the Guardian of Small Business Award, In 1962 Helms received the Annual Freedom Foundation Award for television editorial best in America his editorials were carried on seventy judged radio stations and two hundred newspapers nationwide for many years. Helms is a Baptist deacon and Sunday School teacher, and recenly was honored with the Southern Baptist National Award For Service to Mankind, The book When Free Men Shall St andis now available at area bookstores in paperback edition at SI 75. self-respe- ct unless they have patriotism. -- Augustine Washington ON COURSE Joseph S. Peery Prof. Economics & Finance University of Utah BLOODBATH IN ANGOLA I, for one, am fed up with the we Americans have been inflicting on ourselves. The plain fact is that the most on fortunate thing that happened to any of us was to be born in America. The single most important reason why this is true is because we have a strong capitalist economic system. Capitalism, by the way, is a good, wholesome, positive word despite the distorted views held by many intellectuals who tend to use capitalism" as an expletive. Capitalism means that the productive capital of a society is owned by individuals and not by the state or society as a whole. This ownership in America is widely spread. Over 15 million Americans directly own corporate stock, and most of us have indirect ownership in the form of stock owned by pension funds in which we have an interest. In fact, about one-thi- rd of all corporate stock listed on Wall Street is now owned by pension funds, and it no w appears probably that under the 1974 Federal Pension Reform Act that more than one-ha- lf of all listed common stocks will be owned by pension funds within eight years. The American people in general do have an ownership stake in capitalism. ' I will defend American three Capitalism ways: First: It is the most effective way of breaking up economic power, a necessary element in the preservation of human liberty. Second: It provides the greatest degree of upward mobility and equality of opportunity. Third: It is not only the most of all economic productive systems, but it is the one system where output is determined by the consuming public, who are the direct beneficiaries of its increasing output. The most important, con- tinuing problem in human relationships has always been power. Concentrated power has inevitably led to human conflict and the abuse of the powerless. For two hundred years, our democratic political system and our Capitalist economic system based on private ownership has successfully power prevented concentration and preserved human liberty. Basically, there are two ways of organizing economic activity; one is the way we do it. Productive capital is privately owned, and consumers voting with their dollars in free markets determine what will be produced, how much will be produced, and how the total output will be shared. Coercion is prevented in this system. Private businessmen cannot force people to buy from them. Consumers will be driven away by attempts to exploit through high prices, poor To quality, or poor service. succeed a businessman has to behave in a way that will make free people want to trade with him. The other way to organize economic activity is through force or command. Central planning substitutes No nation can be great, no people can have FOR AMERICAN CAPITALISM the imagination. And what is Sen. Helms answer to these problems? M. . . the free enterprise system has produced a high standard of living, more CHEERS for free-mark- et allocation. Central planners determine what is to be produced, how much will be produced, and Continued on page 1 1 Capt. Joe H. Ferguson WHERES HENRY KISSINGER? This writer presumes that all the readers of this column are at least as grateful as he is for the wonderful efforts of that great humanitarian, Henry Kissinger, in working to establish equality and peace in South Africa and Rhodesia. For months we have seen in the headlines of the countrys newspapers where Kissinger has journeyed to Africa in an effort to do away with inequality and to improve the living and working conditions of the black people of that continent. Cant we all be grateful for such compassionate men as Henry Kissinger who spend their time and energy working for peace? BUT HENRY WHAT ABOUT ANGOLA? We all (without a single exception, I know) applaud Mr. Kissingers efforts to bring peace to Rhodesia and South Africa. But the question arises now, MWhere is Henry Kissinger now that the people of Angola really need him? Recent reports from Angola state that the Communist regime there is slaughtering the element there. One AP report stated, MRefugees fleeing southern Angola claim Angolan and Cuban troops and South West African guerrillas are destroying villages, slaughtering livestock and raping and killing tribes of guerrilla people in their drive to wipe out a group. uBurning villages in Angola could be seen and artillery and shooting heard from this village (Oshakati, South-We- st Africa) on South West Africa's border with the former Portuguese territory. Forces of the Marxist Popular Movement fovr the Liberation of Angola MLPA which won the Angolan civil war last November, and Cuban troops are tiying to eliminate the remnants of the Angolan National Union UNITA which reportedly has widespread tribal support in the area. anti-commun- ist pro-Weste- rn BURNING, RAPING AND KILLING DISCRIMINATION? ISNT THAT All of the tremendous criticism which has been directed against the tiny country of Rhodesia was because there has been a higher percentage of whites in the government than blacks. Possibly there has been some unjust discrimination against the blacks in Rhodesia. But wait a minute discrimination or not, the blacks in Rhodesia have for years enjoyed a higher standard of living and better treatment from their government than just about any of their brothers on that continent. Contrast this with the treatment the Angolan blacks are ...destroying villages, receiving from their government livestock and raping and killing slaughtering tribespeople.... So the question all honest Americans must ask themselves at this critical moment is, Where is Kissinger where is the United Nations where are all of the worlds bleeding hearts? Their silence is deafening as the freedom-lovin- g people of Angola are being slaughtered by the Communist blacks and the imported Cuban Communist troops. This is just another outrage against humanity being perpetrated by the Communists and those who run interference for them. 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