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Show Page 8 The Utah Independent The Paper That Dares To Take February 3, 1977 Fables, of course, contain a moral that can be applied to human affairs. This one pertains to several of our current problems. For example, the nature of price controls is people control. A quart of milk or an aspirin obviously is not concerned about the price tag it carries. Prices arc of concern only to human beings. And the only thing that can be controlled by government in this process of minimum and maximum prices is people. The nature of the operation is this: Persons who exercise the police powers of government use those powers to control the people who produce milk, distribute milk, and buy milk. The price of drugs is never controlled by government; the controls apply only to the persons who produce, sell, and use the drugs. When the government enforces a minimum wage, it is persons, not things, that the officials watch and control. The person who favors rent control wants the police powers used to control individuals who own houses for rent, and families who wish to live in such houses. Purely and simply, he favors controlling people and forcing them to do what he wants them to do. But when such a person is flushed out from behind his and comfortable euphemistic word-shielhe is usually honestly astounded that anyone could possibly believe that he favors people control. Try it sometime. You will limit to my patience." And so it goes. Actually, when you stop and think about it, Education, Inc., Irvington-on-Hudso- n, no government can ever really supNew York port a price. Prices dont give a When a devotee of private hang about supports; it's not their property, free market, limited his The nature of .all states nature. government principles position, he is inevitably confronted governmental schemes to support; with a barrage of socialistic cliches. prices" is this: Some people who Failure to answer these has effectively control the police powers of silenced many a spokesman for freedom. government use them to take to answers Here are suggested money from other people who have some of the most persistent of the earned it. and to give it to still other Qiches of Socialism." These are not people who have not earned it. the only answers or even the best posThat's all it is. Calling it by another sible answers; but they may help you or name cannot change its nature, for others to develop better explanations of are the that ideas on only the better or for worse. liberty effective displacement for the empty Why do persons object to promises of socialism. coming right out with it and saying. Of course Im in favor of people Government should concontrol. I dont need you to tell me trol prices, but not that it's only people, not inanimate people. objects or ideas, that can be controlled. But don't forget that I am Perhaps you recall the fable of doing it for their own good. In the scorpion who asked the beaver various of these vital economic to carry him across a lake. The areas, I am convinced that I know beaver declined the request with what is best for them and for us this deduction: If 1 let you get on all. my back, you'll sting me and While I would disagree with paralyze me and cause me to that candid person. I could still addrown." mire him after a fashion. At least But the scorpion he would have the courage of his him with this rejoinder: I can't I convictions. For example, Robin swim. Thus if sting you while we Oba was Hood in I'll robber in every sense drow n, too. are the lake. of the word, but at least he had viously I wouldn't do anything to more personal courage than do the cause that. The beaver could find no fault despicable characters who sneak in that logic. So, being a up on their victims and sand-ba- g them from behind. fellow, he invited the Perhaps the reason for our scorpion aboard and set out across the lake. Right in the middle of it. preference for the euphemistic a response the scorpion stung the beaver and invariably get price controls," rather than the I am opfollows: somewhat as realistic people controls, lies paralized him. to in our All own natures. controlling people.lnfact, deep of us As they sank together to the posed I all of sorts seem to organizations to want support bottom of the water, the beaver instinctively help causes more and to give But fellowmen. our we observe people reproachfully pointed out to the freedom. True enough, I do believe that there are so many of them who scorpion that both of them would that the government should con- want help of various sorts, and that now drown. Why did you sting trol certain prices for the benefit of our own personal resources are so me?' he asked. all; but control people never! limited. But by voting to have the I couldnt help it," tearfully Now this nonsense government do it, we can satisfy stop spouting "Its my replied the scorpion. is a There control. about people both our charitable instincts and nature." our sense of fair play. Also, that easy procedure has several other fringe benefits. When we vote to help others, we are thereby fulfilling our patriotic duty as good citizens to participate in the affairs of government. In addition, this procedure doesnt require much Also, wfe are personal effort. that usually promised somebody else will have to pay the cost. The next time you hear a politician ora neighbor advocating price supports or rent control or some similar subsidy, ask him why he favors people control, and forcing other peaceful persons to do what he wants them to do, and taking money from people who have earned it and giving it to others who havent. 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Price: 5 on 1 Federal Reserve Phoney Dollars Genuine Silver Dollar, 1935 or older Send Your Order To: DAN PILLA - 102 704 Edgerton St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 ed do-good- er COMMUNIST LEADER TESTIFIED AGAINST JUDGE BELL Washington: From the day nominated that the President-elehim to be our next attorney general, Judge Griffin Bell has been the target of vicious and bitter attacks by alleged civil rights groups and by the Communist Party, said Rep. Larry McDonald (D-Gin an interview here today. Judge Bell, said the Georgia Congressman, is known for his ct A Stand She hailed the civil rights movement for exposing Bells racism, adding. This questioning of racism is important because it is an extremely important criterion. How one stands on that question will determine how one will stand on any other question facing this country. out that Bell would assume office at a time when the death penalty, a menace to black, poor and working class people, is being resurrected, and that he would have responsibility even-handand moderate for the FBI. In view of the Soviet Comdecision in the Sth Circuit Court of While I respect his munists' record of persecution and Appeals. of the central Asian judicial competence, although I oppression have at times disagreed with some nationalities, and of Christians, of his decisions, the ideologues of Moslems and Jews as well as the left cannot tolerate the ap- political dissenters, the U.S. Communists posturing as civil pointment to high office of a man said decisions libertarians is a farce, whose A interfere with their political McDonald who continued, can become a Communist programs. civil liberties only Since December 22, respecter of he ceases being a Comwhen reported McDonald, the Communist press has published shrill munist." Rep. McDonald pointed to and hysterical attacks on Judge Bell, brimming with slander and in- the illogicand graspingat straws in nuendo. The Communists have the Mitchell testimony and said linked themselves with the groun- this showed the lack of a real issue dless attacks being promulgated by in the radical witnesses testimony. the NAACP, Common Cause, the They have no cause that can atSouthern Christian Leadership tract the support of the average working American, and so they are Conference and other groups. Slander is the principal weapon reduced to promoting forced because there are no issues of bussing and attacking responsible substance with which to oppose southern leaders," said McDonald. McDonald that charged Judge Bell. The Congressman revealed Judge Bells opponents are really that on Friday, January 14, a top attacking him because he is a 1 member of the Communist P arty, moderate white southerner. U.S.A. testified against the At- thought Georgia rejoined the without Union a hundred years ago, but it torney General-designarevealing to the Senate Judiciary appea rs some groups are acting out vendetCommittee that she was a member their Its of an extremist totalitarian tas," McDonald remarked. organization or that she personally time responsible Americans let advocated revolutionary armed their senators know about their violence. support of the appointment of concluded Charlene Alexander Mitchell Judge Bell, McDonald. testified as executive secretary of A letter to McDonald supthe National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression porting Bell was written by Sen. without identifying her James O. Eastland organization as a Communist Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Party front, and without men- Committee and appears in the Jan. 20 Congressional Record. tioning that she has been a full-tiCommunist Party organizer and member since the end of the 1940's when she was a teenager, said The of power McDonald, who is a leading our perpetuating property in our families is one of the congressional authority on She pointed a) ed well-reasone- d te great-grandfath- ers (D-Mis- s). me terrorism and totalitarian organizations. most valuable and circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the of society perpetuation interesting Rep. McDonald reviewed Charlene Mitchell's report on Armed which she presented to the 1969 CPUSA National Convention and which was printed in the partys confidential internal publication, Party Affairs. 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