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Show i Page 10 The Utah Independent March 17, 1977 The Paper That Dares To Take READERS A Stand OUTLOOK Continued from page 2 shown that the attorneys are unable to police themselves well enough. That explains why the reputation of the profession is so low. Of course, many attorneys do have an excellent reputation and certain law firms who would not accept any partners or juniors who would not live up to the highi standard of the firm. However, those lawyers easily can point to a great number of lawyers who go crooked ways and who should serve at the point of the mountain rather than practicing law. I had a personal experience of my own in the past. My lawyer accepted a tax case against the IRS at a flat rate fee of $14,000. Later, by mutual agreement that fee was increased to $17,000. Still the attorney with his authority to sign checks in behalf of my bank accounts, on top of the $17,000 fee embezzled $36,000, thus taking a total of $53,000. When this crime of my attorney was discovered 1 called on Karl Snow's Senate Bill 84 that and when these men publicly would place control of licensing criticized their systems back home, and ethical issues for lawyers under they paid the price by being sent to the State Department of Business political asylums". Registration. It worries me that the Bar canAllen Hess not administer an apparently Bemidji, Mn 56601 reasonable and fair licensing NO-WIDETENTE, examination in its own field and RED TRADE, DEFEAT yet the Bar expects public trust with regard to all other issues Dear Editor: concerning the practice of law in But for our now so much Utah. 'military-industri- al Paul C. Larson maligned complex', the Nazis would have CENTER REGIONAL SERVICE been victorious over the Soviets, victorious over the Allies and victorious over the world. Dear Editor: In peace, real or imagined. Ongoing attempts to cram the pilot" Regional Service Center Americans have never had much down our throats in Bemidji interest or concern for our military (Region 2) only confirms my belief or our defenses. In such times we the concept is a blueprint for never take them seriously and always1 prefer to play with tyranny. N, From the onset, press disarmament and peace coverage of the legislation together conferences, even as we are now with the State Planning Agencys doing. this building has been given only limited the prosecuting attorney. However, he would not accept the analysis in the news media. To place appointive case as being too complicated. It apparently would require to call a bureaucratic agencies in a privately grand jury to handle it and he owned building to help pay taxes, stated. ...We did not have a grand while the same agencies are jury for years. Then, calling on the increasing their harassment of Bar Association, the case was private citizens, is pure quackery. While the prime movers for accepted and we were sitting in the of bureaus court at the Kearns this concentration Building for I Va days. The attorney makes guarantees of efficiency", was found guilty of embezzling and they do not talk about other wrongdoings and was dis- accountability nor guarantee the barred for life. To my surprise, people the right to own private however, a year later the Supreme property and access to unbiased Court of the State reinstated him information. To argue that loading an area and he is practicing law here in Salt Lake City ever since. He never down with government buildings paid a dime back of the embezzled will have a favorable economic money, neither did the Supreme impact is asinine. The $30,000 the city may Court put any obligation on him to start making payments. It was a collect in taxes on this privately" poor decision of our highest court, owned Regional Service Center is thus lowering the reputation of the but a drop in the bucket compared to the rent the investors will legal profession more and more. The Supreme Court really gave collect rent which can only come that attorney a good chance to get through increased taxes on the people or from new license fees or away with his crime. A good example of mainpermits. in a standard the Eventually people in other taining high legal profession is given by the parts of the state and the nation are In going to get fed up with paying the Oklahoma Bar Association. 1965 it organized a Gients Security bills for our area when they can no Fund. Every lawyer admitted to longer pay their own. A the Oklahoma Bar has to conbooklet published tribute annually into that fund. specifically on this Regional for Bemidji, The money is used to reimburse Service Center clients for dishonest acts of prepared by state planners and lawyers. Such a Clients Security handed out by the Headwaters Fund is badly needed in Utah inas- Regional Development Commission staff to its board much as lawyers generally are not bonded and against many of them members, contains some startling no judgment could be executed. provisos passed in related prior With such a fund in operation the legislation. Bar Association has to start a Independent thinking citizens house cleaning and by doing it, the would do well to call in Russian reputation of the profession would dissidents and ask them to assess the political implications of the certainly improve. 1 hope Senator Karl Snow of master plan set forth in that Provo will succeed with his bill 84. booklet whereby there is to be It would be a change for the good. supervision and control of all state telecommunication facilities Eugene Wagner Salt Lake City, 84106 which shall include any intent surrounding Bar-appoint- ed transmission, COPY OF TRIBUNE LETTER WORRIED Editor: Tribune: Apparently the Utah State Bar goofed in its last administration of the Bar exam (July, 1976) since the State Supreme Court saw fit to admit a sizable portion of those applicants the Bar said were not competent to practice law. I would prefer that lawyers, like other professionals, be licensed and governed by state government. Consequently I urge support of emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic A central mailing systems." service. A massive duplicating division w hich isto require that all equipment now or hereafter owned by the state be turned into the central duplicating division for use therein with few exceptions. Solhenitsyn and Vladimar Bukovsky might recognize the similarities of such working models But now something new has been added: our industrial- political complex so determinedly building the military-industri- al complex of the only power on earth that would threaten us. eliminating any relative superiorities of our complex to defend us. To lose War HI to the Soviets, after what we had to suffer to win War II against the Nazis, cannot be avoided if we build up their military-industricomplex while weakening our own. but isnt that where our government has been lead ing us? Sincerely. J. Kesncr Kahn Chicago. 111. 60649 military-industri- al al IMPORTANCE OF CANAL Dear Editor. in Despite the hush-hus- h Washington about the book by Admiral Gorshkov of the USSR, The Sea Power Of The State, many Americans are well aware that his disclosures make the Panama Canal and Zone of greater strategic importance to our national defense than many people have realized. These are some of the points the Communist sea boss made: 1. The USSR can saturage us with weapons from beneath the sea as well as from the surface. (Question: How did they get all these weapons deployed without using our Canal?) 2. The Russian fleet can interdict and cripple the flow of oil and other strategic materials to the U.S. from any direction. (Question: Why do our gutless negotiators want to make it so much easier by giving the Cuban-dominatTorrijos regime control of the Canal, which is our ed property?) 3. The USSR fleet is capable of blocking our ports and isolating our outlying islands. (Question: Why do we not then keep control of the Caribbean by maintaining control of the Canal, thus thwarting their plans?) 4. The USSR is positioning task forces in strategic locations on the world's oceans, and building bases in friendly countries". (Question: Why simplify their problems of strategic operations by letting the Canal become a connecting link between two red seas?) 5. The Soviet navy is a major instrument for forcing the of all the nations of the com-munizati- world, even our few remaining allies. (Question: Doesn't it look like treason in the State Department even to give away the only readily accessible waterway not yet dominated by the main enemy?) In view of the above in- it formation, all behooves Americans to let Congress know where they stand on this big surrender plan currently being negotiated with a totalitarian dictator who seized power from a duly elected government. The U.S. Constitution requires that both houses of Congress must vote on the disposal of U.S. property. Let Congress know you want them all to hang in there in the defense of our country. Sincerely, Winifred Stiegelmar Phoenix, Arizona LESSER OF TWO EVILS Dear Editor: If you suspect you arc on the fastest political toboggan ride in history, dont decry your suspicions you are merely awake. But do be alarmed! Remember 1972 when the openly leftist George McGovern scared the populace into voting for the lesser of two evils", thereby making inevitable Richard Nixons reelcction? Well, that greater of two evils" keeps popping up in the most revealing situations. The Marxist Guardian recencarried the Third Party results tly in the 1976 Presidential election, lamenting the unimpressive showing made by the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party. The Guardian castigated the SWP for not paying enough attention to the ultimate aim of socialists seizing state power and overthrowing capitalism" in a blatant bid to elect Trotsky ite candidates to public office. As for the Communist Party vote, the Guardian noted that, although the vote was small, it is This nonetheless significant. year's contest marked a break in CP election tactics. For forty years, the CP has opted for a lesser evil' strategy, basically siding in practice with the liberal Democrats. This year, however, the CP waged its first serious presidential campaign since the 1930s." The Guardian also remarked that in 1972 the Communist Party vote for waged a Democrat George McGovern." But here's the kicker: Right after the platform was adopted at the 1976 Democratic Convention, Senator George McGovern was asked to compare the Carter Platform with his own, and he said: Well, the one 1 ran on in 1972 was not as liberal as this half-heart- NEW MATH? Dear Editor: On March 4th the Salt Lake Tribune carried on page B- an article about the Salt Lake County -I Water Conservancy District 7, or from $50 raising water rates to $60 per acre foot. When I went to school an increase from 50 to 60 was computed as a 20 increase. In contemplating this abnormality I came to the following possible conclusions: 1. I should go back to school and learn the new math so I could compute an increase from 50 to 60 as a 17 increase. 2. The Tribune employs reporters of abnormal (meaning low) mentality. 3. The Tribune employs proofreaders (if such people still exist) of similar mentality. 4. The Tribune employs no 1 proofreaders. 5. This is an example of a deliberate attempt to confuse people and make possible a subsequent effort to put something over without protest. There are many other alternative conclusions that can be drawn. Whatever other people conclude from the article cited, I think there is one conclusion not debatable that readers should be on constant guard against being influenced or brain washed" by the media. All that's needed is common sense, and a refusal to read the usual papers and concentrate attention on the Utah Independent and similar newspapers (there are several) which print truth and reflect American values. Sincerely, Howard Finney Bountiful, Utah 84010 At the present time the larger percentage of family income is being spent for housing, fuel, food and clothing and costs are still rising. What is left for spending for inflationary luxuries? This is one message that should be given to the congress and the president. who will not reason, bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave. Me is a - William Drummond POLITICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ed Continued from page 1 testify before the Committee. c. Appeal to the President of the U.S. A. to use his influence on behalf of the families of the enslaved American fighting men held by the Red government of N. Vietnam, either there or in Red China. General P.A. del Valle (Retd.) one." Yes, the Carter platform endorses every wild leftist scheme EDITOR'S COMMENT: If the Congress of the United States known to man. McGovern failed, for want of cleverness to decieve. But Carter, with overwhelming proclivities for deception and decisive help from the powers that be succeeded. Sincerely. Dorothy Walden Desert Hot Springs. CA 92240 ratifies the UNITED NATIONS GENOCIDE TREATY the survivors of the Vietnam and Korean planned no-wwars could be returned to these countries to stand trialas war criminals in an 1NTERNATION-A- L If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called CONSTIIUTION OF THE UNITED SIA1ES. (Urge your peace, mankind can have no greater misfortune. "Spinoza senators to vote treaty.) - on Zionist-Communi- st in WORLD COURT. 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