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Show i $ 9 . WESTERN AMERICANA' i OeadlDy Geifloijle Treaty Page 2 The A" Dndependenf Dedicated Jo Vol. 4 No. 24 VJ tfjj The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 , June 14, 1973 Government Ever since the beginning of time, man has been fascinated by artist, the Brooklyn-bridg- e salesman, the magic. The sleight-of-hansomething-for-nothing specialist, and the ecological medicine man have held a special charm that has permitted the sucker to be taken without his realizing it. The name of the game is Making it Without Any Effort. The con man makes it with a minimum effort on his part while the sucker loses what little he had. Currently, we are involved in one of the largest con games ever played, the environmental con game. It is an easy game to play. It requires no skill and works best in a highly educated, technologically-orientesocially-consciosociety. There is no easier sucker than someone who has been exposed to a smattering of knowledge; who has tasted the fruits of technology; and who feels slightly guilty for having it so much better than his fellow man. Unfortunately, the environmental con man is not easy to spot. He comes in many shapes and forms. Most of all, he wears the cloak of respectability. The e. environmental con man is well educated . . . but he has no Let the sucker beware, is his motto. The environmental con man is an avid collector of facts and figures that can be used at the drop of a handkerchief to refute and confuse any other data concerning environmental pollution. If challenged on his facts and figures, the environmental con man shifts to social concerns and moral issues that cannot be quantified. There is no way to catch the environmental con man and to expose him as a hoax. The public will not permit him to be caught. For to catch and expose an environmental Continued on Page 7 Responsible For Food d Con Men And Your Car Dr. Ross E. McKinney, Parker Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Kansas, has been a professional environmental-pollutio- n specialist for twenty years. Here are passages from a ' speech, entitled Beware The Ecological Con Man, which Dr. McKinney delivered to the Kansas Public Health Association: In recent months, we have heard more and more about air, undrinkable water, inedible fish, eroded mountainsides, intolerable noise, scarred Alaskan tundra, and poisoned mothers milk. . . . each day brings new stories of environmental horror. Each new story must be worse than the last to get even a measure of media. Like a large wounded animal, attention from our the public has responded to this environmental danger with screams of lament As is normal in times of stress, various groups of people step All have the answers we seek. forward to meet the challenge Some of the answers are simple; some . . . require complex technolare are quite expensive; and some of the answers ogy; some even magical. ble ever-fleeti- ng .... ... ... d, us con-scienc- Ask Your Lawyer License" "Wlhat What wrath of entrenched bar clubs refute Dacey's expose of probate the trumped-u- p charges against was vented on him. Disclaiming practices, question of it clearly him was the larger cries about Mr. Dacey's "prac- demonstrates the impudent whether freedom of speech and ticing law without a license" presumption on which bar this press were to be perpetuated were by association members condescendingly rest and perfected, or whether a spokesmen across the land, but their cause: That is, that small group could again gang-u- p most bar organizations pruden- members of the public com- to stabilize their intrusion by tly abstained from the folly of munity are such dumb clods they securing a precedent for supby Lucille E. Moran can't prosecute their own pressing and editing freedom of "protesting too much." No t so in Dacey's home state of business independently most speech and selectively proclaimWhen Norman Dacey's book. ing a list of forbidden books. How To Avoid Probate, became Connecticut. The legislature, notably with the various agend Precedent is a cies of government. The an immediate best seller, the composed mainly of attorneys-at-laenacted statutes inference, which I for one reject criterion. For every precedent on substantially tightening the out of hand, is that members of the books in support of natural UTAH INDEPENDENT state bar's grip on what appears the bar, conversely, are an liberties and freedoms, there are 2459 Major Street to be the vital valve of political intellectual elite, inherently countermanding precedents Salt Lake City, Utah 841 15 establishment: The power to superior, smarter, and hence that may be cited for restraining, control and divide the vast more competent to manage diminishing, or denying them. Second Class Postage Paid at properties annually shunted other people and their personal Precedents taken for granted exthrough probate. problems and affairs than the ert powerful psychological inSalt Lake City, Utah fluences, for one unknowingly parties in interest, themselves. " esUse of the terms But, the New York County Bar accepts them as valid because tablishment " or "the es- Association, located in Manhat- they exist. Controversies and tablishment" in this text is not to tan, overreached their bar- court contests are won by the be construed as meaning the ricades and raised questions side premising its case on exact natural branches of about its members' actual status and overriding precedents as opposed to what is regarded as government, but refers to the in- in the community. To block disvisible scaffoldings , woven out tribution of his book in New York customary and usual. The fact that a precedent exof OLD WORLD awes, taboos State, the Manhattan club and pretensions, which, at once, brought suit against Mr. Dacey ists is not, of course, sufficient impede discharge of the proper and swiftly convicted him of the grounds for accepting its invocation at face value: History is functions of unforgivable heresy of "pracand defeat the object of in- ticing law without a license." a running account of how good dividual freedom and After protracted and costly and bad precedents alike can independence in deference to appeals, with Dacey on the become settled in custom and how traditional acceptances can untimely and obsolete protocols. spending end, he emerged vicIn defense of its position, the torious many months later with be used to abridge the triumph of Hartford headquarters of the a ruling from the state's highest independence. But contenders state bar establishment dis- court. bluffing a cause on unsound and ' tributed an unconvincing Dacey persisted in his fight incongruous precedents usually booklet entitled Understanding against the power-play- s and convict themselves by their Probatel or Don't be maneuvers of entrenched bar tendency to ignore intervening events that shattered and hacks for far better reasons than Dead...Wrongl to anyone Continued On Page 9 free for the asking. An attempt to to save his own neck. Underlying License re-echo- ed w, CSSSSS5SSS3 self-governm- ent two-face- Shortage If Belmont, Massachusetts food rising prices don't upset our you, guess is that you've stopped eating. Those of us who still eat are mighty concerned. There are really only two basic causes of rising food prices: a scarcity of food or an increase in the supply of currency. In the United States today, both of these factors are present, but they are not recognized. Rarely do we hear mention of correct solutions to the problem of spiraling food prices. A scarcity of food always causes prices to rise. That is simply the law of supply and demand. But most people fail to understand that this is one law that can't be repealed. Who has caused the current food scarcity? The federal in a few easily government recognizable ways. In 1933, the government began to subdue and hamstring the farmers with controls and regulations that each year drove many thousands out of farming. Then, it destroyed the incentive to produce by actually paying other farmers to let their land lie unused. In 1972, more r than 1 0,000 "farmers" each received government payments of over $20,000 not to produce. Another cause of food scarcity is the huge government . giveaway program. The Nixon Administration recently sent d of the entire American one-thir- wheat crop, plus vast quantities of other grains to the European Communist Governments. These at sales so-call- prices ed lower the than government permits to U.S. conwere subsidized by sumers American taxpayers who are bearing the brunt of this manufactured scarcity in higher prices for bread, milk, and grain-fe- d meat products. - But, the increasingly valueless currency of the United States is an equally guilty culprit. We are seeing the value of our hard earned dollars evaporating before our eyes. Democrat and Republican Ad- ministrations alike have succeeded in leaving us with paper money that has no gold or silver backing, and therefore no real worth. And as more and 'Continued On Page 10 |