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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand November 17, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 5 U.S. TILL SCHIZO Copyright Jo Hindman 1977 Someone making footprints on the sands of time left a history of the Farm Bureau (FB) along the wayside. It helps to explain the troubles the membership is having with the FB leadership today. Forty years ago Dale Kramer wrote that the Farm Bureau was formed to keep down unrest (Source: among the farmers. Truth About the Farm Bureau" published 1937 by Farmers Book Store, Minneapolis, Minn. 29 pp.) Kramer said that although local county Farm Bureaus had done much good and sincere work, they w'ere misled time and again by their leaders both state and national. He asserted that grain speculators, packers, and Wall Street bankers were using the Farm Bureau as an instrument to make up the farmer's mind the way big business wanted it made up." The first FB group was set up in the early 1900s by a chamber of commerce in Binghamton, Broome county. New York, according to Kramer. Big railroads" and the Rockefellers became early FB supporters. "The contribution of the Rockefeller Foundation reached S660.000 yearly" but became so controversial that Congress appropriated funds in 19 14 so that the U.S. Dept, of Agriculture need not In other accept the donation. the words," Kramer noted, expense was .shifted from the Rockefellers to the people but control remained in the same hands. The FB became less effective he said because farmers inside the organization were wiseing up to the specific purpose of FB leaders to sell them out." He quoted the remark of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska to a FB audience, The time will come when the rank and file of American farmers will realize by whom they are being deceived." The current record in the seventies ( 1970's) suggests that FB hasn't changed a bit is still schizo, still a split identity. Some of the old problems persist in 1977, new ones have come in, but the gap between what FB says and what FB does has never closed. A Northwest farmer, wrote in a rural newspaper about an old problem that wasn't the drought. Drought is not what is breaking the farmers," he stated. We have gone through droughts before and they didn't break us. Conditions today are not unlike A great many those in 1930-3farmers went bankrupt then as today.. .After 50 years of farming and ranching we have searched for some solution but have found no answer. We are being strangled by cartels, conglomerates and by big unions. The new problems include regional governance and land use control that are one and the same according to a perceptive FB member who challenged American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) president Allen Grant on his talk on priorities published delivered at the 1977 convention: I looked in vain." the member wrote, for mention of Use but Regionalism Land nowhere did I find a single reference to it. What good would the issues you outlined accomplish if a system of control and management extends over every foot of land in this country? Regional Government is destroying the United States and it should be at the top of the list of issues and concern for Farm 5. Bureau.. ..With 2,700,000 members, FB can do something about the misdirection we are Two resolutions from taking. lower FB levels opposing Regionalism and Land Use were rejected. ...Something is fishy. Do we have a 5th column operating within Farm Bureau?. AFBF squelched that unrest" with an insultingly unctuous reply. In print, AFBF policies uphold constitutional principles, but workshop instructions, memos and refusal to adopt resolutions from the grass roots level reveal the fatal legacy which goes all the way back to conditions that Kramer reported in the early 1900's when the Farm Bureau intra-organizatio- was founded. Almost 48 percent of American women over 16 years old now work, or say they want to work, compared with 43.2 percent in 1970. Put another way, the American family continues to break down. As the family goes, so goes the nation. Two million Americans are now reportedly living together without benefit of clergy. This is an ' astronomical 83 increase in just seven years. Tomorrow: Sodom and Gomorrah? Support Our Advertisers Among Andrew Youngs more astonishing comments was the one that we should not fear communism; for it he received more praise from President garter. General Singlaub, however, 'said that Carter's plan to take U.S. troops out of South Korea would result in more aggression or war from North Korean Communist troops; that comment caused the President to promptly remove the general from his command. It does not seem that abstract reasoning is needed to determine that America is beset with an inversion of values; there is now and has been abundant evidence that, indeed, a New World Order is planned for us all. This New World Order is simply and grotesquely the Old World Oligarchy. It is not inevitable but the individual citizens lack of political morality makes it probable. MADISON E. ALDERSON Mark Twain said the main difference between dog and man' is that if you feed a dog he won 7 bite you. The U.S. has been giving more worth of food a year to foreign nations, most of whom bite us at every opportunity. Weve provided $25 billion in food for the past 20 years to 80 nations most of whom align themselves with the Communist bloc in the United Nations. than $1 billion so-call- ed Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato suspicious-lookin- g served vessels fishing in Argentine waters. The intruders carried no flag but they had large Fishy Set-U- p By Robert M. Bartell WASHINGTON. D.C. (Liberty Lobby News Service) A disquieting development in the South Atlantic is that its highly strategic southwestern part sw'arms with communist fishing vessels! These trawlers and factory ships operate inside the territorial waters of Argentina without a to the local authorities. The communist crews are on the offensive . . . and there have been fatal casualties in confrontations with Argentina's patrol vessels. We learn about this touchy subject, indirectly, from the Spanish press . . . while our own establishment news media prefers to keep silent. Ever since the U.S. and Canada restricted the amount of fish and other seafood foreign trawlers can take from the rich fishing grounds off North America, communist ships have been scouring the worlds seas for alternate sources of supply. Soviet and satellite trawlers are zeroing in on the other end of the Atlantic, and are depleting fish stocks off Argentina the same way they did off New England, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland a few months ago. In their new area of activities in the South Atlantic, the communist crews are almost brazen. Either because of specific instructions from the top, or just doing comes what naturally, their throwing theyre weight around ana fishing inside Argentinas territorial waters without bothering to apply for a permit. The Buenos Aires corof respondent of "ABC the Madrid, leading Spanish high-power- ed TRICENTENNIAL TRY Wyoming, Pa., a town of 4,000 had trouble raising money for its Bicentennial celebration last year, but it thinks it has the problem licked for the Tricentennial. The Bicentennial Committee wound up with $63, which it put into a savings account for the communitys Tricentennial planners to use 99 years from now. A local bank added $100. The $163 will remain in the account until interest raises the value to $500. This will be put into certificates of deposit, which pay a higher interest rate. The money is expected to grow to $100,000 by the year 2076. Pretty clever, eh? Maybe yes, maybe no. If the present rate of inflation continues, that $100,000 wont even be worth the original $163 . The Arizona Republic THOUGHTS FROM J. KESNER KAHN - Decontrol means youd only have to pay what it costs to get the natural gas you need; control means you wouldnt be able to pay what it would cost to get what youd need, and so youd have to do with less than you need. SOVIET UNION NEEDS MAJORITY RULE TASS, one of the Kremlins official newspapers, tells us there are 16 million Communists in the Soviet Union, and it figures, because others have told us there were 200 million leaving very few not accounted for. -- J. Kesner Kahn IF NOT BY EMBEZZLEMENT THEN BY ARMED ROBBERY anti-Communis- Mention the UTAH daily, describes this ugly situation: "On September 21, Argentine naval patrols ob- Are Inverted FARM BUREAU SAME -S- Values INDEPENDENT - v. Of course there will be threats, even violence, even guerilla attacks against our Canal and Canal Zone if Carters treaties arent ratified, simply because the Soviets want and intend to s use their Axis to get it for them. And if the treaties are ratified theyll have what they want, and there wop.t hj; any yiplefice, , jet v Kremlin-Castro-Torr(jo- . . ,,f hammer and sickle emblems on their chimneys . . . The Soviet trawlers were apprehended and taken into the harbor of Madryn . . . So were also, a few days later, a number of Bulgarian ships, which at first resisted capture, causing three Argentine petty officers to perish in the icy waters Madryn is below the 40th parallel, so the incident occurred in very rough water. The three Argentine sailors likely died instantly of heart seizure, upon contact with the freezing water. But Argentine vessels kept crisscrossing the area for an hour, in the vain hope of recovering the bodies. This Soviet thrust into the area may be for another reason than just catching fish. The South Atlantic is an unusually quiet ocean area. Ordinarily the only sound to be heard amid the cold waves is the deep breathing of whales at night in their feeding grounds. But sometimes this quiet erupts in gunfire, because of the area's great strategic importance. Its been happening every generation or so in the mil of 1914 and again the fall of 1939, as and Germany England for of there mastery fought ... the seas. This is the area of the Magellan Straits and of the between Drake passage the tip of South America and Grahams Peninsula of the Antarctic continent. Its a global strategic prize second to none, controlling the waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. We ought to watch Soviet operations in that area for our own good. . . . Reader's commenta are welcome. Please pass along any points of view to 300 IndepenLiberty Lobby. Dept. dence Ave.. S.K., Washington. 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