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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 2 The UTAH Independent June 21, 1973 The READERS OUTLOOK QDTTaIjlI Independent Dear Editor: Welfare, food stamps, and other free benefits have made Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, living too soft "underprivileged Morality, and Truth rr COMMENTARY E this of country. Hardships and sufferings make men out of boys, and proud human beings out of the dust of the slums. Man needs incentive to improve himself. He needs Free men can vote themselves . into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free. J. Reese Hunter KERSHNER-ROW- for the. realize the importance of a decent life. One of the worst methods a education to government could employ to combat the miseries of poverty is to hand money to a poor, but able, man with no labor attached. Another fault is to place this man's children in Centers so he can devote his leisure time to creating more children whom he cannot feed. Still another failing is to support any human being who is content with a livelihood to which he has made no contribution. Because every necessity is handed to them, the poor have never truly felt the sting of poverty severely enought - to initiate their independent rise from its depths. There must be restrictions at the boundaries of these United States to regulate the influx of immigrants. Perhaps Orientation Bases could serve to educate those less fortunate as to our language, laws, and a useful trade if they have none. The Passing Of The Buck The Law Of The Land Day-Ca- re Edward Rowe Howard Kershner PRICE FIXING BRINGS SCARCITY AND BLACK MARKETS There is much glib talk about fixing prices at current levels or rolling them back to the level existing at some preceding date such as January of this year or October, of last year. Both theory and experience unite to tell us that the hope of the price fixer is vain. You cannot compel a merchant to sell goods at bdlow cost. He will close his doors rather than do it. You cannot compel a farmer to bring produce to market for sale at less than his cost of production. If you pass laws to that effect, he will produce only black-marke- t. The enough for his family and what he can people in the cities will go hungry. Price fixing does two things that are wrong. It increases consumption at a time when goods are already scarce, and it decreases production at a time when increase is urgently needed. If you were a cattle producer, for instance, and prices were fixed at a level that would make your operation unprofitable, you would decrease rather than expand your herd. No one would be interested in putting additional capital into the business of raising meat animals. Very soon much less beef would be going to the market. In September 1946, when President Truman restored the wartime ceilings for meat, the number of beef cattle moving to market declined drastically. When the ceilings were removed a few Ours freedom-lovin- of consumers . is best served when prices are permitted to find their natural level. One very important function of price in the free market is to facilitate the movement of capital, manpower and raw materials away from the production of goods and services that are in less demand and to maximize the production of goods and services that are in greater demand. The von Misean Law that every government intervention results in less satisfaction of human wants should be learned by the American people. If we want scarcity, black marketing and lower living standards, the fixing of prices is the road to take. But, if we want abundance, with rising standards of living, let us avoid all price fixing and all intervention in the market. Living Issues, 7960 Crescent A ve. Buena Park, California 90620 AMNESTY MUST WAIT After the war is over and Hanoi has withdrawn as we have withdrawn, and after the MIAs who are still missing in action have been accounted for, should we begin to consider the cases of the amnesty seekers on a basis as they prove they could be trusted to serve if ever called upon again. Meanwhile there's no injustice in allowing them to continue to live the alternative they freely chose instead of serving. But it would be unjust to just let those who refused to serve when called to come back to enjoy Americas freedoms and opportunities which were won and have been preserved only by those who served when called upon. case-by-ca- se a prosperous, and proud country. So that America will months later, the normal number of beef cattle began to move to the markets. When prices of meat rise, producers raise and market more animals. When they decline, they raise and market fewer animals. The interest is g, remain steadfast in this way, its people ... every single one of them... must reflect that same attitude. There can be no poverty where there is wealth of spirit. Sincerely, Joren Miller Palm Springs, Calif. Genocide Dear Editor: For more than twenty years the ' United Nations has urged ratification of the Genocide Treaty, a vaguely worded document which would make it ah international crime to cause physical or mental harm to any member of any minority group. The Treaty is carefully phrased so that it does not apply to the millions of victims murdered by the Communists, but it would mean that any American accused of causing mental anguish to someone of another race could face trial in a foreign country by a court. foreign Significantly, Communist revolutionaries have been accusing the United States of genocide since 1951. Passage of the Genocide Treaty could lead to an American policeman facing trial in Tanzania for arresting a Black Panther or an American soldier facing trial in Hanoi for protecting South Vietnam. Such is U.N. justice. Edward W. Gomes Middleboro, Mass. JOE H. FERGUSON WHAT TO DO ABOUT JUDGES WHO VIOLATE THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE there weakness in the Constitution, it is the absence of a provision for the citizens to initiate penalties for judges who violate their oaths of office. If this is contstrued to be criticism of those who framed this instrument, it is only that they placed more confidence in their future than our history now justifies. Federal judges of today regularly violate their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution and consequently they are denying to the citizens the protection of their rights. This must be corrected. There exists, of course, the penalty of impeachment. But this must be initiated by the Congress. It js too cumbersome and too far removed from the people. We need a provision whereby one citizen, alone, can initiate action to impose a penalty upon judges who violate their oaths of office. Some of the more common violations by judges are ignoring the Bill of Rights, failure to enforce the separation of powers concept, denying the jury the right to try the law as well as the fact, failure to hold the Constitution superior to conflicting statutes, and denying citizens the right to represent themselves in court. Another major violation is denying citizens access to the courts, using the excuse of sovereign immunity, to sue federal agents who have committed crimes against, them. Such violations of the rights of the citizens could be terminated abruptly by the Congress by providing statutes by which a citizen could file suit against a federal judge for denying him his constitutional rights. This would stop a lot of mischief in ahurry. Think about it. Talk about it. 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