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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Page 2 The Utah Independent October 6, 1977 A Stand POLICY NOTICE The Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty,' Morality; and Truth We like to receive Letters To The Editor. Frequently, however, these letters arc much too long for us to use. For this reason, we arc adopting the following policy: 1. Letters To The Editor ?d) or should be typed (double-sp- a written legibly on one side of an 2. We will publish these letters KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner THE CREDIT NOOSE TIGHTENS Part III Any way you look at it, the bureaucrats win while the people and their corporations are dropping farther and farther behind. Between 1966 and 1976 employee compensation, figured in current dollars, increased by 136 percent while corporate profits rose, from $82.5 billion to $122 billion, or by 48 percent. In other words, profits as (in current dollars) rose only about one-thir- d much as employee compensation. But, in actual purchasing power, corporate earnings declined by 15 percent and undistributed corporate earnings, that is, savings, by 28 percent, thus leaving many fewer dollars to maintain and expand productive facilities. This means fewer jobs. In 1965 dividends accounted for 2.8 percent of the GNP. In 1976, Qnly 2.1 percent. In 1976, stock averages in real terms were about 40 percent below the high point reached in the 1 960s. That meant heavy losses for many investors in American industry, and it discouraged future investment, resulting in less capital and fewer jobs. Unfortunately, Congressmen do not encourage their constituents to be frugal and to save money for capital expansion, thus creating more jobs, but on the contrary encourage them to expect more and more. In fact, Congressmen themselves do not practice frugality. During the past ten years the cost of maintaining a Member of Congress in Washington has risen about 200 percent. It now costs about $1 billion to operate Congress for one year. Moreover, Congress has just handed itself a 30 percent increase and not only to itself, but to the top brass in Washington. In 1975, 300 of the 535 Members of Congress took trips abroad at the taxpayers expense. Congress also tacked on a rider to a bill for the safety of postal workers which provided for automatic adjustment of the salaries of Congressmen, and 18,000 top federal officials and judges, to keep pace with the rise in the cost of living. There were no proper hearings and the President signed the measure before the news media was even aware of it. While the country grows poorer as a result of inflation, those who are responsible for it protect themselves against its consequences. is much the same in other countries, and far worse in many of them. Continued on page 5 It The TJ JU Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each T ues-da- y 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 Paid at Salt Lake City lYhlicHiion No. 8642X0 Snd change 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 thanks. THE EDITOR , of address forms and correspondence to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly MEDIA CONTROL Dear Editor We have all heard about the probe rb that he who controls the finances of a nation controls Now we hear that nation. repeatedly that They who control the news media (TV, radio and newspapers) of a country control the countiy. When the same persons through interlocking corporations and organizations control both the news media and the finances of a country, would you expect that they would combine their strength to, control the politicians to serve their SPECIAL INTERESTS? Surveys conducted by major polling organizations reveal that the reading public has little confidence in the accuracy of the daily news, TV or radio. The lack of confidence is not necessarily because of ' inaccuracies, but because of what they will not print or broadcast. In other words, the intentional suppression of news, the burial ofa story, is as evil and wrong as a misleading headline, distortion or creation of pure fiction. Those AIRWAYS who use the that belong to everyone, for dissemination, of news and function within our American system that provides them with so many freedoms, including freedom of the press, have a responsibility and obligation to educate the public with fairness, . objectivity and balance, presenting the facts with truth not contorted nor biased reporting. We believe that all who read this letter will already have knowledge of who controls the We finances of our country. understand That a book has been recently published that gives the names of the alleged owners and controllers of our controlled news media, and a copy of this book may be had from the Christian Nationalist Crusade Org., in Los Angeles, California. Respectfully, Austin Spurlock Payson, AZ 85541 NEW HOSPITAL t nation whose schools . , public pluralistic programs include advocacy of Socialism,- Communism, sexual sexual forced and perversion while forbidding equality, the teaching of Christianity? I am tired of seeing the literature conservative Wake Up, headed, is America America! awake. America has been seduced. The hope for America is not to wake up, but to make up, with God. If my people, which are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and mend their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and heal, their land. (II Chronicles - liow-to-do-i- ts, Brothers. TO DESTROY US Meetings are being held throughout the nation by a radical female organization called the International Womens Year Convention. The organization dominated by nation. They propose: Will Rpgers Rights for Lesbians. Gun Control (slipped in LIKES never lesbians. Their goal is to destroy morality, the family and the Equal Ive is d, greasy-haire- and s hippy-type- 7:14) understood statement: I never knew a man I didnt like. Some menTve known the best are those I like the least. Like Lady Astor said of Tom Dewey: You really have to know him to dislike him. Thats the same Lady told who once Astor Winston Churchill, If I were your wife, Id put arsenic in your coffee.Churchill replied: And if. I were your husband, Id - drink it. . under wife-beating- ). Abortion for all women, but especially for teenagers (without parental consent or knowledge). Stringent tightening of Title IX of the Educational Amendment. and for planned parenthood teenagers without parental Contraceptives consent. Federally Funded child centers for . all care (regardless of need). International Inter dependence of a one world -- UNCONSTITUTIONAL . EDUCATION On the CBS morning news, Sept. 12, the was statement made, without refutation, that the Constitution of the United States guarantees everyone a decent and equal education. That is not true. The not does Constitution a anybody guarantee decent or any other kind of education. Our Founding Fathers were smart enough to realize that the federal government should not be in the education business. Forced busing for racial is designed, in balance part, to educate everybody equally. Forced busing is in itself unconstitutional and immoral. so-call- ed RETIREMENT There is presently much discussion about mandatory retirement. Should workers be forced to retire at 65? At 70? This writer does not believe in the principles of mandatory To the Editor Continued on page 4 never were. Or perhaps are senile at 65. But the point is, it is none of the business government's whether a private employer has mandatory retirement requirements, at whatever Im age. The retirement most interested in is Big Why should God save a 8!4xll sheet of paper. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty Corinthians 3:17 TOM ANDERSON retirement. Some people are highly productive at 65. Others (promotion the government . under United Nations). These creatures demand of every federalization aspect of your lives and they are using taxpayer financed funds to put on these outrageous meetings in each of our 50 states. MISCELLANEOUS Unless there is a public rebellion, the question is not whether our leaders will abandon Taiwan, but when. All such demeaning questions as Are you now the of a member Communist Party, U.S:A., or any subdivision of the Communist Party, U.S.A.? have been dropped from federal job government forms. The Supreme Court has ruled that just because a person wants to overthrow doesnt the government mean that he shouldnt work for the government. Otherwise, how could the Negro revolutionary, Andrew Young, hold Ambassadorship? an ' Continued on page 10 |