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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent December 30, 1976 CLICHES OF SOCIALISM Foundation for Economic Education. Inc., Irvington-on-Hudson, St Mt York When :i of devotee private property, free market, limited states his prmeinles government position, he is inevitably confronted with a bar race of socialistic cliches. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced main a spokesman for freedom. Here aiv suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the "Cliches of Socialism." These arc not the only answers or even the best possible answers: but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty that are the only effective displacement for the empty promises of socialism. Tin for free enterprise BUT! Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and our free enterprise system are the foundations upon which we have built the greatest way of life of any nation. This is our American heritage given to us by the Founding Fathers who had courage to fight and die for the God-give- n rights of free people. Freedom of religion remains substantially intact. Freedom of the press endures in spite of sporadic attacks by those who would like to control, regiment, or direct the people's access to news. Our concept of free private enterprise is under attack from Powerful forces many sources. who believe in the socialization of property, the supremacy of the State, the subservience of people to government, are constantly boring from within and without to achieve their objectives. But, the greatest threat to our free enterprise system comes from within. There are too many people who are for free enterprise BUT! Rugged enterprises in the home-buildifight industry BUT public housing government mortgage corporations are needed. Some manufacturers object to any government regulation of their businesses BUT they welcome a government tariff to curb foreign Chambers of competition. Commerce in the TVA area fight for free enterprise BUT government power, subsidized by all the people, is sought. Some retail merchants resist government regulation BUT seek government aid in policing fair price agreements. Segments of the and petroleum mining industry are firm believers in the free enterprise system BUT government should control competitive imports. Farmers are rugged individualists and great believers in free enterprise BUT they fight to preserve the right to have Uncle Sam finance rural electrification at half the government cost of borrowing money. Too many of us believe in the ng free enterprise system until the going gets tough then a little government subsidy in the form of tariffs, import quotas, or other OBJECT TO DIS- BANDING COMMITTEE ON MIAs A Conserative devices is requested. Washington: Seventh District We need a new dedication, a Congressman Larry P. McDonald renewed devotion to our American (D-Gobjected strongly to the decision to disenterprise system. announced recently There is no room for a doub- band the Select Committee on ting Thomas. The preacher who MIAs. wishes to preserve freedom of Despite religion must also be a fighter for allegations that none of our our free enterprise system, without -in-action are alive, the ComBUTS. munist record shows that missing The editor of a now defunct men can be held secretly for as long afternoon Detroit newspaper once as stated twenty years, said, This newspaper is for McDonald. There are Americans enterprise, hook, line, and sinker. . who have emerged from Red cap. . BUT, we recognize there are tivity ten years after Red Speaks Out a) widely-publiciz- ed missing- proper areas of government There can be no ownership. freedom of religion or freedom of the press without a strong free enterprise system. Look at Cuba! We can't compromise with statism. Government ownership is an insatiable octopus whose tentacles reach out to grasp everything in its area. TVA is a striking example. Starting as a flood control project, with the incidental development of hydroelectric power and a pledge not to construct or operate steam electric generating plants, it now operates the largest power We, the system in the world. taxpayers of Michigan, through the taxing power of the federal government, have been forced to contribute one hundred million dollars to subsidize this operation. We are subsidizing our own destruction because power is luring Michigan industry and Michigan jobs to the TVA area. Former President Herbert Hoover said, The genius of the private enterprise system is that it initiative, ingenuity, generates inventiveness, and unparalleled productivity. With the normal rigidities that are a part of government, obviously the same forces that produce excellent results in private industry do not develop to the same degree in government business enterprises. We have a responsibility to fight against the slow erosion of our free enterprise system. To preserve the right to our American heritage we must work harder at our responsibilities. We must oppose the gimme" pressure groups and the political hander-outs.W- e must militantly challenge the philosophy that government can do everything for us and charge the bill to others. There are no others they are you. We must stand, as individuals, for the right to own, to save, to invest in our free enterprise system. Without this freedom, other freedoms will soon be of little value. Willis . Hall steam-generati- ng TVA-subsidiz- ed CHANGE COMING? Campaigning, President Ford ended up telling us how opposed he was to continued Soviet domination of the Eastern European nations. But he wasn't convincing because when it comes to Panama and Rhodesia the Ford Administration has been doing more to promote Soviet domination than to oppose it. When it was Angola, and there still are Freedom Fighters in both Angola and South Vietnam, he and his Administration didn't oppose Communist domination. But now that the Carter Administration is to replace the Ford Administration, will this pandering to the Soviets be stopped, or will it be accelerated, in the lame duck days after Carter is in the White House? Kemer Kahn Readers' comments and questions are welcome. write us at The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand The American Way Features Pigeon Rrge, Tennessee 37863. Please P.O. Box 990, governments declared that they could find no trace of them, he continued. According to McDonald, the U.S. government has not been sufficiently tough with the Communists in these matters. The Soviets denied forty-fotimes that they held John Noble, an American citizen who was freed only when President Eisenhower intervened, he said. And the Hanoi government played a very nasty game with the ur thousands French upon thousands of survivors of were never returned. The Georgia solon explained that a few years ago an American Theodore detective, private Grevers, met in Laos w'ith Pathet Lao officials and learned that several hundred American men were being held in four northern Laotian camps. This mans testimony was never sought by the Committee, which now wants to give up, said McDonald. More recently, some Red Chinese in Mexico have reportedly said that some Americans are still held in Red China, which should be checked. Dien-bienp- our Once hu government decides to accept the Communist line that they hold no more of our men, the way will be cleared to start sending millions of dollars in aid to the Hanoi McDonald said. The government," Congressman also pointed out that no former ROW'S were allowed on the Committee staff, although some applied, and such men have the experience to know how the Hanoi government operates in these matters. Both the composition of the Committee and the Committee staff the sad conclusion that was reached, The State Department, McDonald added, has always tried to place the burden of proof on the families or friends of those who thought their men might be alive. Obviously, individual do citizens not have the same resources as the government. In short, the Georgia Congressman said, T am greatly disappointed to have a Committee of the United States Congress simply write off our fighting men in this manner. pre-ordain- ed E.P. THORNTON to be dis- OF CHILEAN DEMOCRACY cussing the historic overthrow in AND SALVADOR ALLENDE". Scattered through the long Chile of Communist Allende, eulogy of this friend of except that we are supposed to two-palearn from history, and lessons Castro are such headings as THE OPPREScontinue to ripple out from the AMERICA event. SOR, and FREEDOM LOSES Chile brought into sharper OUT, and ALLENDE: CRIMIview several American leftists and NALLY OVERTHROWN". All of this was the work of students. communist sympathizers. One such was Edward (Chap- One was a law freshman who spent Commies who the last two years in Chile. pie) Kennedy. backed Allende scream of how the Name, J. Alan Marks. No mention big land owners in Chile were made whether he is a descendant of d. Karl Marx, big daddy of comkeeping the peasants munism. al And of how the This kind of indoctrination corporation I.T.T. worked against Allende. Well, Ill bet the reds in makes it clearer why our schools RED MASSACHUSETTS care and colleges were hotbeds of demonstration and violence not that Ed Kennedy has his own private big landed estate; they do during the Vietnam war. Profesare not scream that Ed should whack sors and administrators in brainwashed with many places of up nearby slum dwellers. Really, he isnt so far from Harlem. learning. If a youngster has heard And more than likely Ed Kennedy has I.T.T. stock, or other shares in nothing but vilification of his own our big, bad, industrial complex. UNITED STATES for, say, 15 Double standard? Par for the com- years, then graduates and becomes a teacher, could he be expected to munist course!! Chile showed up Michael teach truth and patriotism? Each Harrington, perhaps Americas generation will make the situation most rabid socialist member of the progressively worse, unless parents House of Rep., whose heart bled demand a greater share of decision about what their when Allende, caught with his making in hand the public cookie jar, blew youngsters are taught. Now a final almost unknown his communist brains out. Allende sneaked into power on a minority CHILEAN FACT. In Santiago, vote of about one third (including capital of Chile about half way votes of hundreds of thousands of down its 2,600 mile length, is a He was busy huge building complex, not comdead people). his building power base, laying in plete, being financed mostly by arms from Cuba and Russia, when YOUR TAX DOLLARS. It is one who DIDNT vote of the several branch headquarters the two-thirhim T of the UNITED NATIONS. Little for waked up from their in time. is ever said about these tentacles of COMA-j- ust the communist dominated U.N. Will WE wake up? IN TIME? Chile showed up Frank octopus that sits in New York, but Church, elected Senator from a number of these big, plush, Idaho but in fact representing the extravagant building complexes liberals of America. He has been are going up in different parts of trying to ruin the C.I.A., either out the world. I have to conclude that of ignorance or from a desire to the Allende grab for Chile ties in render this country helpless in the with the fact that a Chilean branch spy and counter-sp- y game. All of the communist controlled countries need and have had spies disunited Nations was ALMOST since before Joshua sent his ad- READY FOR OCCUPANCY! vance agents into Jericho. Russia Send a bit for postage(6-- F has its K.G.B. Cuba and Angola Arcadian No. I, Myrtle Beach, S.C. 29577), the print-ohave their Kissinger. proof of The Allende thing showed the University of Texas Allende how thoroughly this countrys blurb, and information about n educational system is infiltrated. I where you can get the of have on hand a few copies of a page ALL the various U.N. WORLD from the DA ILY TEX A N, student GOVERNMENT branches being newspaper of the University of built with YOUR MONEY. Texas in Austin, Lyndons home Pray that we may get out of the U.N. and work toward that town. You would have to read this end with your voice and your pen print-ou- t to believe how or typewriter. Legislators WILL thoroughly communism is at work LISTEN, but only if enough voters on our school kids. There is a big make enough noise. WE MUST drawing of Allende the HERO, DO THAT. In case they remain under a caption IN MEMORY deaf, KEEP YOUR GUNS! It may seem late ge semi-starve- multi-nation- left-wi- ds COM-MUNIS- ut low-dow- V How reaching Unless the UN is completely reorganized without the communist nations in it. we should get out of it. Herbert Hoover We Americans have boasted so much freedom that lately we almost expect it to make a living for us. Edgar W. Howe V a minority, majority, seizing authority, hates a minority! -- L.H. Robbins Minimum wage the laws. ..overlook which every alternative employer has, namely, to abolish the job and pay no wage at all. -- Prof. Oscar W. Cooley How reaching a minority, majority, seizing authority hates a minority! -- L.H. Robbins Minimum laws. ..overlook wage the which alternative every employer has, namely, to abolish the job and pay no wage at all. -- Prof. Oscar W. Cooley ng |