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Show WESTERN AMERICANA it The Ondependentf it VjEEHIVe stjj Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth I Airk'kjtjiititititjtititjtjtitjt&ttititiKjtit JUi by Dr. Howard Kershner Salt Lake City, Utah November 13, 1972 When I was growing up in school, in the last decade of the previous century, we were taught to believe that freedom had come into the worldly state and that our of free, constitutional form government would gradually be extended until it began to cover the whole world as the ruling philosophy of mankind. Some years later, I learned to doubt that. By this time I had read the rise and fall of some 22 civilizations and I wondered if we would go the way of the others. I sought to discover what it is that makes civilization endure and what causes its destruction. 1 came to the conclusion that there are two things: One is loyalty to the moral law of God. For only moral men can be free. If we do not have high moral standards, the strong will go out and take anything they want, anywhere, anytime, anyhow they HOWARD E. KERSHNER can get it. If I believe in God I will accept the ethical ideals which we attribute to God. I know that God wouldnt lie, steal, covet, or do any of the wicked things. If I continue to worship God over a long period of time, I will gradually accept those principles as a rule for my conduct. As Saint Paul said so beautifully, Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image from glory to glory. Into the same 250 image, showing that we progress in that direction because we hold these high ideals continually in our minds. I dont think we can keep our moral standards very long unless we are basing them on religious faith. Religious faith, according to my theory, is the only dynamics strong enough to hold us to high moral standards. Now, if we do not have these high moral standards, then what? If I dont believe in God, Ill take anything 1 want, anywhere, because I am the most important thing there is. There is no God, so each one of us is the most important thing there is. Now, if that is our belief, then we will exploit anybody we can exploit and the strong quickly find ways of exploiting the weak. You have the master and slave relationship which you have in Russia and the Communist countries today. Where the belief in God and faith in God declines, thats what you have. If you will stop to think of it, freedom has never appeared in the world for very many people for President Kissinger By of-th- e c r- - i 'Jr.ivc t t John Schmitz sees surrender in Asia. Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah The UTAH INDEPENDENT 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City Utah 84115 c; Ks-lt- y Lf !c Order Dt p;.rn.f nt of Vt; h l.llj-rcri- . ouy, ; . . very long, apart from the acceptance of the principles of the Christian religion. Oh, I know there were a few free Greeks and a few free Romans, maybe 10,000 in all, but the rest were all slaves. Freedom is a possibility for all men by way of acceptance of the moral law of God stated in all the great religions but in the expressed supremely Christian religion. So, I came to the conclusion that one of the needful things, if Joan our civilization going to endure and not be the 23rd to disappear, is to recover and maintain our faith in God and our faithful religious is practices. That isnt all we need, though. Sotye of the best people I know do some of the most foolish things that make freedom and self government impossible. We need a lot more knowledge of economic problems and how to deal with Continued on Pag 6 Baez Barredl From Utah Prison imprisonment. Miss Baez toured college campuses urging others to imitate her husband. She authored a book entitled, Daybreak, which with love, she dedicated, and admiration, gratefulness to the' men who find themselves facing imprisonment resisting the draft. Utah residents will remember the appearance of Joan Baez at the Tabernacle a few years ago. During her visit in Salt Lake City she made some derogatory remarks about Banner The which brought a flurry of criticism upon her from local residents. Her leftist crusading has carried Miss Baez all over the world. Her diatribes against the United States in Europe and Asia are legion. In August 1970, she appeared in Communist Poland and her known agitators with performance was carried all over understandable reluctance. There Europe. She told Polish newsmen: America is not the sickest, but the is much evidence that outside biggest. If Poland was as big as agitators have deliberately gone into prison to foment trouble, America, she might be just as destructive. strikes and riots. In explaining his In an exclusive interview with further, Miss Baez reasons for denying an the Utah Independent, Mr. Wright said: Mr. indicated the Utah Migrant audience, Wright source of information Council came to him with the My indicated to me that, while her request of Miss Baezs appearance. husband was in the federal prison He said: I havent talked with her, but system it was necessary for the these are the people that are federal people to move him on bringing her into this locality. We three different occasions because discussed it and, on the basis of the of the support and public backing reputation she has had in the past , that she got over his imprisonment. for being an extreme liberal, and So, the federal people apparently the fact that she has had some had to move him to three different federal institutions during the time difficulties in the federal prison system when her husband was in, which he was confined. I figured we just felt that we were asking for that was enough. In accepting responsibility for we if risk a that we didnt need to permitted her there. I took the the denial, Mr. Wright said: I didnt feel like the risk was responsibility for making the worth it. We didnt want somebody decision that she shouldnt come out. to get hurt. Frankly, I chose to Baezs former husband, David catch hell for not letting her go out there rather than hell for whatever Harris,- spent a prison term in a federal penitentiary for refusing to happened for her coming out there. accept induction into the armed services. During the time of his This week, Ernest Wright, Utah State Executive Director for Corrections, refused to allow radical agitator, Joan Baez permission to entertain inmates at Utahs State Prison. Miss Baez will be in Utah Saturday to present a benefit concert at the University pf Utah Special Events Center. Her appearance is being by the Utah Migrant Council and Adela Development Corporation, and the University of Utah Union Program Council. The Utah Migrant Council approached the Executive Director for Corrections, Mr. Wright, about having Joan Baez sing to inmates at the prison. In view of the tense situation existing in prisons around the country, prison officials weigh the presence of red Surrenders In Southeast Asia Congressman John G. Schmitz On October 26, Americas during the big North unelected President for foreign Vietnamese invasion this policy, Henry Kissinger, spring. As the New York Times agreement put appeared on nationwide summary it: The television to admit the essential Vietcong, backed by accuracy of Hanois report of 145,000 North Vietnamese the. terms he agreed to, in the troops who would remain in the name of the United States, for country, would continue to the selling out South Vietnam and control scattered areas rendering worthless all the areas they have conquered. Worse still, the terms of the sacrifices our fighting men would virtually have made in Southeast Asia. agreement These terms would make insure a Communist takeover aggression pay by permitting of South Vietnam by imposing the Communists to hold the a coalition government with the territory they have taken by Continued on Page 1 1 force, including that just seized it it it it ' ' - Star-Spangl- ed . |