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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A March 31, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 5 Stand GOVERNMENT MORE TELLS WHAT WE CANT EAT!!! MARILYN MANION Sen. James A. McClure (R-ID- ) Washington: Seventeen rats wen. found to have developed bladder COMING: HATCHET JOB ON THE HATCH ACT? About a petition circulated year ago, a was being left the door wide open for the unions to coerce the employee to participate in politics and at the same time free him from some of the strictures that had been his political upon put activity. Now, if they can amend the Hatch Act at this time, the unions especially the Federal sector unions - will double or triple or even their political quadruple almost clout overnight it will because give them the power to use discrimination and coercion within the work force to force the to Federal employee chosen their support candidates. President F'ord had the to veto these courage and revisions Congress didnt have enough votes to override that veto. We cannot be as certain that President Carter will veto. In fact, we have seen some that indicating reports during the campaign he promised the unions that he would not veto it. or, in fact, that he would sign it. We are very worried about that because once the unions get that legislation and haven taken that already powerful political base and it multiplied manyfold, then their other demands will be almost irresistible. Their other demands will be, of course, that all Federal be employees to subject compulsory collective bargaining and that Congress be forced to subject to arbitration any issue on which they cannot agree. This completely strips the people of the power to control the institutions of government. American Jl'ay Features Readers' comments and are welcome. questions The Please write us at American H'jv Features. P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. in The my neighborhood. lady who brought it door to door that she was explained us to asking support the basic rights of Federal employees. Did I know, she asked, that my mailman was not allowed to work for his favorite candidate for I Congress, and didnt think that was terribly unfair? I didnt sign the petition, which called for amending the Hatch Act. But Im sure will be my neighbor knocking on doors again soon, because the subject is still very much alive. David Y. Donholm, Executive Vice Iresident of the Public Service Research the Council, explained the of Hatch background Act and current efforts to amend it on a recent Manion Forum broadcast. Here are excerpts from his remarks: One of the most issues that will significant emerge in the Congress will be the union efforts to amend the Hatch Act. This will dramatically increase their power. Act was The Hatch after the passed in of abuses of exposure political patronage in the The service. Federal 1 Congress wanted to protect Federal employees from being coerced into political activity. Coercion in that regard is such a subtle thing that they had to prohibit Federal employees from engaging in the activity in order to protect them from being forced to participate in it. Now, the unions, last year, tried strenuously to Act have the Hatch amended- They attempted to continue some of the - prohibitions against coercion on the part of the or Federal supervisors Federal officeholder, but Spiritual strength material strength. is greater than any form of -- it' Chiang Kai-she- k finally happened, Hosgood, your withholdinga exceed your aalary. Here your bill! tumors, so our government is telling us that 215 million Americans can no longer consume saccharin, that artificial sweetener so popular as a sugar substitute. The administration bases this judgment on a Canad ian test which shows that 17 of 200 rats which were fed huge amounts of the artificial sweetener developed tumors. The administration also states, however, that saccharin has been in use for more than 80 years and has never been known to harm people." But what is bad for some rats must he bad for all of us. or so the thinking goes. What is ignored is that humans could hardly take such huge doses of saccharin without its being injected directly. The daily doses of saccharin given t o the test rats compare to a human drinking 800 twelve ounce diet sodas daily for a lifetime. Without 1 any scientific evidence of my own, would submit that any human who attempted to drink 800 cans of pop in any one day would surely die from other causes long before the saccharin could do any harm. Recently the growth hormone DES was banned by the same Food and Drug Administration for use in fattening cattle for human consumption. The FDA still maintains that the chemical might cause cancer, but what it fails to say is that, here again, huge quantities of the beef must be eaten. Moreover. DES has not yet been banned from use in some types of birth control prescriptions. It is difficult to debate against many of the Food and Drug Administrations bans without being labeled as being in favor of cancer. And in fact it was Congress who called the passed something Delaney Cause" which prohibits the use in food of any ingredient shown to cause cancer in animals or man. Isnt congress hypocritical, however, because they always seem to exclude cigarettes from any adverse action by the FDA. Certainly tobacco is one substance in which there can be little doubt that it has a direct relationship to cancer in humans and in rats as well. If there is something good about the banning of saccharin, it is that the attention of the American people is being focused on the seemingly endless efforts of our government to tell us what we can and cannot do. While in Idaho recently an old friend said to me, You know, life is hardly worth living without the right to take a few risks." I think thats true. Certainly we arc obligated to remove major hazards as much as we can. But even the domestic water supplies in several of our cities were said to contain some small amounts of materials suspected of causing cancer. Im sure you remember that report of a couple of years ago. yet 1 would hate to recommend that people stop drinking water. There are literally hundreds of substances which are suspected of causing cancer, yet if we were to ban all of these materials women would no longer be allowed to wear nylons and our diet would be dull indeed! Carter Breaks ERA Promise by John F. McManus One Belmont, Massachusetts of the strong underpinnings of the U.S. Constitution is its requirement that the federal government maintain its place. In keeping with their justifiable fear of big government, the Founding Fathers jealously guarded individual and state prerogatives. Nowhere is this attitude more evident than in Article V, the amending procedure, in which the drafters recognized that, if the federal government y authorwere granted to amend the Constitution, ity all limitations on federal power would soon disappear. The Constitutions amending procedure pointedly ignores two of the three branches of the federal government. Only the legislative branch has any say in s the amending process of each House must approve), and this Congressional approval must then be matched s by affirmative votes of of the state legislatures. A Constitutional amendment, for good reason, is no concern of either the executive or judicial branch of the federal government. top-heav- (two-third- three-fourth- Equal Rights Amendment The current debate over the misnamed Equal Rights Amendment demonstrates the wisdom and foresight of the Founding Fathers. Article Two of the proposed ERA reads: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Only recently have state legislators become aware that this provision, over and above the other numerous objectionable features of ERA, would establish federal jurisdiction over any matter having to do with men or women. Marriage and divorce laws, child support statutes, labor legislation you name it! all would become federal matters. The already gargantuan federal government would leapfrog ahead toward to'.al power. One state legislator who understands both the U.S. Constitution and the havoc that ERA would bring is State Senator Mary Helm of Oklahoma. On January 29, 1976, after then-candida- te Jimmy Carter ad- President Gets Involved But now that candidate Car- dressed the Oklahoma Legislature, Senator Helm asked Mr. Carter if he would use the power of the President's office to pressure state legislators on the matter of ERA ratification. His answer, verified by the official tape recording, was: I favor the Equal Rights Amendment, but I dont think it would be appropriate for the President to try to involve himself directly in the deliberations of the Oklahoma State Legislature or any other. A ter is President Carter, the inappropriate has become fixed policy. In recent weeks, legislators in Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Nevada, and Georgia have been badgered by telephone calls from Washington, many from Jimmy and Rosa-lynCarter in person. Cabinet members Cecil Andrus and Juanita Kreps have also been on the telephone, while White House counsel Robert Lipschutz and presidential aide Mark Sie-gare using taxpayers dollars in a coordinated effort to increase the power of the federal government and wreak havoc on the Constitution. Happily, the Carter effort is not succeeding. In spite of the immense pressure, or possibly because of it, numerous state legislatures have again rejected ERA. But Jimmy Carter's team plans to continue its highly improper interference in the affairs of the states. Pressure has already begun on legislators in Florida, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Carter aides have even zeroed in on Oklahoma, where solid proof exists, in the form of that tape recording, that a Carter commitment isnt worth a tinkers dam. The American people had better realize that their Presidents goal is vastly increased federal power, and that his word should not be taken seriously. n al round-the-cloc- k : 1977 The John Birch Society Features NUCLEAR POWER SAFER Our hesitation in developing nuclear power in the northeast is best understood," says John R. of Boston Silber. president as a pathological University, refusal to see that the nuclear power is far less expensive than fossil power in dollars, pollution, disease and human lives." He notes that one hundred nuclear power plants would have to operate for four hill ion years to kill as many people as are now killed directly each year providing coal for generating electricity." Looking at the proposed nuclear plant in Seabrook. New Hampshire, the B.l). president said: (the opponents) They demand that nuclear power plants meet safety standards that, if applied throughout American life, would stop the production of practically everything that man makes and would prohibit the use of almost everything man finds in nature. The fantasy world of the is environmental campaigners ex posed by their select ivc outrage. Review of The Sews Belmont. MA 02178 buy the insurance, and take all the risk. Use of your land will be dictated. Where time is taken to bring out the truth, our people arc turning thumbs down on land use control by government. The question was called. The Resolution passed. Immediatelya delegate challenged the vote; the use FB president brought pro-lan- d the resolution back to the floor, requested that a motion be passed to allow him to speak on land use asa member and not as the president. A vote was taken and he lost. More discussion. Another vote and the Resolution to Repeal the again Land Use Law passed! Wyoming The victory is spreading. A repeal bill is to be introduced at the legislative session in Cheyenne, the state capital. All the educational work Shirley and others did, is really paying off. The Bible is the rock upon which our republic rests. Andrew Jackson TOP MARKET PRICES J y supreme art of living is to & strive to live each day well. Wilferd A. Peterson The AAA Trading . ? y& 227 West 600 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 & 7 Phone (801) 531-645- J |