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Show J , 2 4 THE UTAH INDEPENDENT Readers Outlook f March 12, 1971 Page 3 i . . k (Continued from page 2) Debt and i By Tom Debtor Anderson COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND VIOLENCE Dear Editor: A deficit (and consequently a debt) occurs when expenditures exceed income. A question concerning the federal debt is who is the debtor and who is the credi- - tor? The debtor (Government) is, I presume, we the people as taxpayers. And the creditor is also, we the (frugal) people as investors in government stocks and bonds, utilities, etc., and as beneficiaries of government spending pro- grams. Thus one is led to the confusing conclusion that he is several thousand dollars in debt to himself and having a collective debt or credit of over 350 billion with an annual interest payment of 14 billion. A concern, is solvent when its assets exceed its liabilities. The government's greatest asset I conclude beyond federal properties and utilities, are taxpayers. Thus each newborn child, as a potential taxpayer, assumes part of the federal About three years ago President Johnson set up a presidential commission to study sex filth and make recommendations for the control of the sale and spread of it. President Nixon named one member to the panel. The smut probers worked two years and are said to have spent $2 million of the taxpayers money. And what kind of report did the majority come up with after two years and $2 million. The Presidential Commission bn Obscenity and Violence has rendered its verdict: Pornography and obscenity are good, not injurious. (Thats probably what Walter Jenkins told the boys at the Y). Since President Johnson appointed all but one of the commission, it is reasonable to believe a majority of them are possibly obscene themselves. The Commission said: The Commission is of the view that it is exceedingly unwise to attempt to legislate individual moral values and standards. , wise citizens to once again for It would be exceedingly local on the such level, imposing such proven things legislate effective remedies as public whipping posts, tar and feathers, is worldwide, all pervading, and jail. The morality break-dow- n overwhelming. But that is no reason to accept it. First we abhor, then we endure, finally we embrace. A news report states: Smelling, touching, and even biting other people can be good for you, says a marriage booklet. Author Nancy Holt now runs Sensitivity Training sessions where people lose their inhibitions by groping and sniffing about in groups. Yeah. And dogs originated it! Take way what few feeble legal restraints there are today? Let the country be flooded with sexual filth? But Be sure that the children are not started with it? England doesnt have all the witches and Satan churches. 18-mem- And all the say the sexologists. The majority of the Commission on Obscenity and Violence was impressed by the example of Denmark. Over there, they have done what the majority on the committee said we should do over here: remove all legal restraints, and permit the country to be flooded with filth So long as the children are not stained with it! Recently the United Press International published a story about Denmark. According to this story, all the rottenness in Denmark didnt pass out with the death of Hamlet. They look like a row of demure school girls. School girls they are. Demure they are not. The 12 and lining the bench are sitting in a state-ru-n veneral disease clinic. And they have given Denmark a new worry. The pill, and a general relaxation of moral standards and sexual freedom among the young are responsible for a 40 increase in VD cases over the past year, in the opinion of district Doctor Bent Maegaard Nielsen. Im not preaching morals, said Nielsen, a leading authority in the field, but some of the youngsters in these days get veneral diseases the way the older generation got a hangover. Girls of 12 and 13 have been called in for treatment and we must explain the consequences if they fail to name their partners. It seems that in Denmark the children are being stained. And it would seem that the Doc and other Danish officals could do worse than preach some morals. Shakespeare was right: Theres something rotten in the The American Way state of Denmark. demon-possessio- n, lds debt thereby proportionately reducing the federal indebtedness providing per capita (person) and the birth employment rate exceeds the deficit rate. (Small consolation for parents to pass on to their children a debt they did not incur.) Actually, the federal government's great asset (also potential liability!) is its ability to create money, to regulate the gold standard, and interest rates. But even so, history sadly affirms the ultimate end of continued deficit spending is inflationary financial disaster. May we wisely learn this fact by history rather than by experience. Respectfully submitted, John E. Smith State Wise Up Dear Editor: 1 less sure hate to admit it but un- the American people wise up the Socialists are just about ready to take us over. They are coming to power by the nibble technique. My boy uses this system on me. He is smart enough to know that if he asks for the whole pie, he HOTROD KfiT By Jesse Helms FROM THE MISCELLANEOUS The leftwing crowd particularly the liberal press has been working itself into a lather of indignation over the efforts of a substantial number of Congressmen who contend that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas ought to be removed from the bench. Douglas has long been the darling of the leftwing set. He can be counted upon, without fail, to uphold and defend the imposition of every conceivable federal control upon the people. On countless occasions, he has voted to uphold what he calls the rights of communists to infiltrate and propagandize America. His votes have helped set convicted murderers and rapists free; he has been on the side of pomographers; he has declared that communists cannot be barred from defense plant jobs, nor from teaching positions in our public schools. But it was not his decisions as a member of the Supreme Court that prompted efforts to remove him from office. Rather, it was his strange private life. During nine years, 1961 through 1969, Mr. Justice Douglas raked in great sums of cash on the side from a whole covey of organizations, including a national gambling syndicate. So lucrative were, his sideline interests that he received more income from them than from his salary as a member of the Supreme Court. His total income for the period that is to say, the amount he reported on his income tax returns self-righteo- us FILE was $863,689. Far more than half of that $473,940 was income. Mr. Justice Douglas critics contend that his dealings, direct and indirect, with gamblers, pornographic publishers and militant ultra-liberorganizations have rendered him unfit to continue to sit on the Supreme Court. But this is the kind of man whom the liberals say ought to stay on the Court. By careful manipulation in 1970, efforts to impeach him were sidetracked. This year, a new effort is said to be underway in the Congress. It will be interesting to see how far it gets. And then, over a recent weekend, there was that report, buried in the news, about the rising tide of illegitimate births in New York City despite the new law, legalizing abortion, in effect there. The report disclosed that two out of every three illegitimate births in New York were to unmarried mothers on welfare. Since 1958, more than 120,000 such babies have been added to the city's welfare rolls. Last year alone, the total exceeded 18,000. One statistic was particularly startling: Among welfare mothers in their 30s who were 1 8 or younger when they had three out of four! now have five or their first child, 71 more children. Another statistic of interest: illegitimate a year in New York Gty. births are increasing by 12 The American Way on-the-si- de al Continued on Page 9 -- V . ; I J. i ' r i ' |