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Show Page 2 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand The UTAH Independent June 28, 1973 u The (grata Independent READERS OUTLOOK TOM ANDERSON Dedicated To The Constitution, Morality, and Truth Liberty, Free men can vote themselves . into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free. J. Reese Hunter - KERSHNER-ROW- E Howard Kershner COMMENTARY Edward Rowe IS BIG BUSINESS BAD? Big business can be bad - but not necessarily because it is big. Whether a business is large or small, it can engage in false and misleading advertising, breach of contract, shoddy manufacturing, and other questionable practices. The size of the business is not the factor which determines badness or goodness. The main determining factor is the character and integrity of management. Some people are being misled these days by a certain viewpoint which is being put forth. Those who share that viewpoint argue that the wealthy owners of large and that this power is businesses wield too much power anti-busine- ss - potentially detrimental to the best interests of our country. Recently I received a letter asking, If bigness is badness in government, then why isn't it in business?" There is a vast difference between government and business. Government is total monopoly. It has no competitors. No group is allowed to set up a second government in the United States which will compete with the existing government. Business on the other hand, must submit to the stem discipline of competition. In order to operate at a profit, business generally must produce a product or service which will fulfill the wants, needs, desires and demands of consumers. To the degree that a business is unable to meet the demands of consumers, the door is open for competitors to come in with a better product or service and seize a portion of the market. Where truly competitive processes are allowed to operate, why should a business not become large and prosperous if it does so honestly, by exchanging goods or services for prices which consumers are happy to pay? Is it morally wrong to make a profit if in the process business investors and managers, generally at great risk and sacrifice of time and energy, bestow material blessings on masses of people? The truth is that businessmen who succeed in the war of competition and who are able to offer to the public better products and services for less money are raising the standard of living of all of us. To the degree that they do so, they enable us to support educational institutions, hospitals, social welfare agencies and other worthy causes. Those who feel that big business is too big, and that government ought to chop it down to size, should realize that any government wielding that kind of power can also go the next logical step and chop all of us down to size. If government could rule, for example, that people who have a million dollars are a threat to our society, the same government could also rule that people who own a home and an automobile are too wealthy and that they should be dispossessed of their property, or a portion of it. Is bigness bad in the business world? If it is guided by moral principles and disciplined by the competitive forces of the free market, a business cannot possibly yield anything but good, regardless of its size. . IT HAS COME TO PASS Now, as the United States Senate begins an investigation into the Nixon grain deal that took a fourth of our feed grains from us and gave them to the Communists, I'm reminded of a passage in Levitious (26:16): Ye shall sow your seeds in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And now indeed, what our farmers have planted, our enemies in Russia, China, Cuba and other Red and hostile countries will eat. Dear Editor: It seems to me the best interests of the United States of America, could be well served by exhibiting the real source of the $100 dollar bills that have been used to pay off the murderers of President John F. Kennedy, by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was found with $100 bills of newly minted currency and also his brother Robert F. Kennedy, who was murdered by Sirhan Sirhan, who was also found to be in the possession of newly printed $100 bills on his person. And also the murderer of Martin Luther King, Mr. Ray, also had on his person newly printed $100 bills. Now it is revealed that all the Watergate conspirators, also were found to be in the possession of newly printed $100 bills, and even Mrs. Hunt had in her possession on her ill fated" Of Shortages And Dental Structures BUTCHER BREZHNEV Butcher. Brezhnev will soon be on our shores. The exact purpose of his visit to ourV Mr. Nixon is not known. Perhaps he has something to divulge about Watergate. More likely, he is coming to measure us for our shrouds. Many young people still think it is hypocracy to be forced to go 10,000 miles to fight Communism miles - top-flig- ht a poor teacher. Frankly, Ive in unconstitutional is and to draft any American to fight a war which the Congress lacks the integrity to declare. Several years ago a New York draftee appealed his classification on the basis that ' he could not participate in treason. The youth pointed out that the influence of Communists in the Institute of Pacific Relations and the State Department had delivered China to the enemy; that Rusk and others still in command had developed n our policy in Korea and caused the firing of caused HOORAY FOR BRAY Well, its about timel Id begun to think that all businessmen were gutless weaklings. Theyve been meekly asking Mother, may I?" of Big Mommy in Washington, D.C. before they raised their prices and never dare to question King Richards right to interfere in their private business because it might be bad for business". But after reading Karl Bray's ad in the Deseret News Tuesday night, I must admit that there are often by so-call- ed brainwork than by physical exertion. PLANNED In our SHORTAGES once-greate- st there are nation, a ppro ximately acres of 2, 2 66', 2 73,000 land. People live on only about one percent of it. Cities take up an estimated 29.3 million acres. Only 20 percent of our land is used to grow food; 33 percent is in forest; 28 percent is used for livestock grazing; 6 percent is used for recreation; and 1 percent for transportation. The is coming famine bunk. Worse than that, it is part of a carefully contrived conspiracy to destroy our once-fre- e Republic. If and when we ever really need to convert more, land to productive use, the first thing we should do is the muzzling of the military and McNamaras disarmament program are all a part of a conspiracy to merge us with the main enemy, Russia. He would gladly fight jn Vietnam and even give his life, if our purpose there was to protect America and turn the tide against Communism in the world. But that it is against his moral and patriotic scruples to participate in a war for I have peaceful Loon Lake, Wash. many so-call- ed that ain't much." Any doctor will tell you that more heart attacks are no-wi- that believe dont I - 1- -A MacArthur; man. work any working harder than I do. One doesnt have to work with ones hands to be a working man. I still remember a letter Dorothy Dix received many Dear years ago. It said, Mrs. Dix: My husband comes home every night claiming hes too tired to help me. All he does at his office is brainwork, and you know yourself, Mrs. Dix, immoral seems to me that the Treasury Department or the Federal Reserve or the United States Mint should be required to make known who or what bank or government agency received these printed $100 bills in consecutive serial numbers that were issued to these various people. I doubt if there was any actual record of these payments or even an accounting of these fiscal payments made in the government accounting office to account for these payments to the people to whom they were supposed to be paid to in the first place. We believe that the payments made to these various people should be made public so that the American people can be made aware of the use being made of their money. John Lemonier working men more It always resented being excluded from the ranks of the Cuba. not the right is a great believer for. the dignity of honest work. Im a great believer in trying to be the best at whatever you do. Better to' be a ditch digger than in appropriate. It red-blood- away Hypocracy is word. Criminal there. some Im Vietnam and to be jailed for even trying to fight it 90 flight $10,000 in $100 bills before her death in the crash that ended up in Chicago onher way to make a payment to someone still THE WORKING MAN non-anim- al . wondered what this to happened patriot. He was doubtlessly given psychiatric tests and maybe a lobotomy. Continued On Page 4 "I ed Americans doing business in this country. The Deseret News ought to hire Mr. Bray as an editorial writer. Then maybe their masthead declaration of belief in the divine origin of the U.S. Constitution would become something besides a hollow mockery. By the way, Mr. Bray pinned the right identification on Mr. Nixon's economic policies: National socialist. In Germany 40 years ago that phrase was abbreviated Nazi". It's appropriate today. 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