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Show Page 2 The Utah Independent April 14, 1977 The Paper That Dares To Take laBBaaBaBaBBBBBBBBBIBBBBBBIIBasaaaaraMasiaailiM.i A Stand READERS OUTLOOK Independent POLICY NOTICE Dedicated To Wc like to receive Letters To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality-- , The Editor. Frequently, however, these letters are much too long for us to use. For this reason, we are adopting the following policy: 1. Letters To The Editor and Truth Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 or should be typed (double-spacewritten legibly on one side of an 8Vxll sheet of paper. d) 2. We will publish these letters 3llimClnmferiraisiaiiiMiaissisiiieiiiiaiiiaaiaiifisR regularly as space permits. We appreciate the fact that some subjects require more length. In such instances they should be submitted as News Articles and will be subject to our regular editorial policies and current needs. News items Must Be Fully Documented. We want to print ONLY THE TRUTH! Many KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner A Tragic Foreign Policy NSC-6- 8 was a top years, in the latter year. secret document. It was It was prepared under the direction of the late Secretary of State Dean Acheson. His policy planner, George F. Kennan, wrote other documents agreeing with NSC-6- 8 and probably was largely responsible for that document itself. advances In general, it may be said that NSC-6- 8 a policy of appeasement toward the USSR. It says and that the Russian leaders are prestige-conscionothing should be done to cause their government a loss of face, or that would make it appear that they are retreating from their policies. (Their known policies include psychological warfare to undermine American ideology, its institutions and its strength.) This is only part of a philosophy that we must not be stronger than the Soviet Union, as that would cause the Russians to fear us and to strive for military superiority. It is argued that if we are not superior to them, they will not strive to be superior to us, and that if we keep up our moral and material strength, and maintain the integrity and vitality of our system, we will gradually bring the USSR to accept the superiority of our institutions and to abandon its own. In his book, Design for Survival , General Thomas S. of the U.S. Strategic Air Power, Commander-in-Chie-f made the following statement: Command, For twenty-fiv- e 1950-197- 5, de-classif- ied thanks. THE EDITOR Sorry we cannot print your squests for funds. NEGOTIATION us long-existi- ng 1957-196- 4, In the early 1950s, our military position was still so superior that we could have crushed Communism at its root, despite the vast inroad it had made all over the world . . . General Power further stated: Perhaps our last chance came in 1956, when the Hungarian people revolted against their Communist oppressors. The Soviets were still not strong enough to risk war with the United States, although they had exploded their first hydrogen device some three years earlier. If we had intervened in the Hungarian revolt or merely threatened to intervene I think we would have called the Soviets bluff and forced them to withdraw . . . The whole Free World would have applauded our action; in fact, it was expected of us. Dear Editor: The attack on the Panama Canal proceeds as planned a treacherous attack by negotiation and treaty revision, in which American officials are deeply involved. In this connection, it behooves all good Americans to remember the following tragic events. When the U.S. and Russia negotiated after World War II, it resulted in eastern Europe being subjugated by Russia. When the U.S. and the Vietcong negotiated during the Vietnam War, it resulted in Vietnam falling to the Communists. And now that the U.S. and Panama are negotiating over control of the Canal Zone, another Communist victory will surely be the result. Our leaders have been willing to surrender our sovereignty over the Panama Canal despite the fact that a recent survey conducted by Opinion Research indicated that Americans favor our continued control by a margin of 76 to 6;. The Panama Canal belongs to the United States and it is No body of elected or officials has the right to give it away. We must write to as many members of Congress as possible. and to the President, and urge them to honor the 1903 high-ranki- 1 non-negotiab- le. non-elcct- ed Treaty. Continued on page 9 i The JTJ Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. Second Class Postage Snd Paid at Salt Lake City change of address forms and correspondence to Sincerely, Dorothv Walden Desert Hot Springs. CA 92240 MONETARY STABILITY Dear Editor: The following is a quotation from March 1977 issue of the magazine FREEMAN that was originally written by the famous economist. HJDWIC, VON MISES. Capitalism and the Common Man 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 would be an exaggeration to contend that the tactics of the unions are the sole threat to Continued on page 4 It Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly ng The Most Beautiful Sentence love you is possibly the second most beautiful I ever uttered. Second? Yes, for the most sentence beautiful sentence ever uttered is: He is risen! He is risen that we life. may have eternal He was born in an obscure town, grew up in a tiny village, worked in a carpenter shop, was an itinerant preacher. He slept in borrowed beds. He died on a borrowed cross, and He was buried in a borrowed tomb. He never made a business, professional, or social success. He never went to school, owned a house, held an office, had a family. He never traveled more than two hundred miles from the place where He was born. Yet, the worlds calendar is dated backward and forward from - His birth. The only thing He ever wrote was a sentence in the sand. Yet more books, songs, and poems have been written about Him than about all the other men who ever lived. And His teachings have influenced the world more than anyone else who ever lived. His is the most masculine, competing, fascinating, and perfect Soul in history. He was so gentle that little children climbed on His knee, and so strong that powerful men ran from the temple when He accused them of making it a den of thieves. Officers sent to arrest empty-hande- Him returned saying: d, Never man spake like this man. The night before His execution, His Roman captors took turns lashing His back with a whip made of leather straps weighted with pieces of metal. They knelt before Him in mock homage and then arose to spit in His face. About eight a.m. they took Him to Calvary, stripped off His clothing and set Him astride a wooden peg which jutted from the upright pole of a cross. Then they nailed Him to that cross, hetween two thieves. Many victims of crucifixion became raving madmen before they expired, and often their tongues were cut out to stop their screams and curses. But as this silent Victim looked down upon His jeering tormentors, He said: Father, forgive them tor they know not what they do." Christ challenged the slavery. system and declared that man is the creation of God and responsible to God. Christ preached the freedom and dignity of the individual ones and right to come and go freely, to enjoy the fruits of his own labor, to work for himself or to sell his labor for pay. He reminded us that the best way to reduce the exploitation of man by man is to embrace Christianity. Christianity, not handouts, is the hope of the world. Christ was no socialist. He believed in .the profit motive. He recognized that free men will have different talents, and abilities in varying degrees. Some, He said, would gain more with what they had, and these were rewarded with more. He even took away the talent of the man who did nothing, and gave it to the man who had ten talents, as a lesson. He congratulated those who profited, and urged His followers to learn by their example. God-give- n He. knew that not charity unless charity it is voluntary. In Luke 12:13-1was , the Christ talking to a large crowd when a man approached And, is 4 him, saying: Master, speak to my brother that he share his inheritance with me. And Jesus replied: Man, who is it that would make me a divider among men? True Christian charity, He knew, comes from within and cannot be imposed by authority. And, Jesus Christ was not a moderate. He was, in fact, an extremist. The modernists today proclaim that there is no black nor white; that sin is imaginary, that we moderate non-existe- nt; to are and be tolerant in all things, including evil. That and unbiblical is ridiculous. An agnostic is a moderate. Moderation is no virtue when one is moderately wrong or sinful. Christ moderately had this to say about these moderates a religious type - denounced in extreme terms: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou were cold or hot. So because thou art neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. The Bible is not tolerant; f Continued on Page 5) He |