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Show 2 Th Pag UTAH Indapandant October Wm m 18 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 1973 READERS OUTLOOK Independent Overzealous i 2 5 Dedicated To Dear editor: The Constitution, Liberty, This is typical of the double standard of our benevolent " Morality, and Truth paternalistic government. Robert W. English Free men can vote themselves Into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free, Gilroy, California In October, 197 1, an overzealous Government P.R. man issued a public warning that stated a certain brand of green beans may contain botulism. Although the warning proved to be a false alarm, this premature announcement cot the manufacturer millions of dollars in sales. Other instances of premature liUUIIUllU"MlllllllllUUl KERSHNER-ROW- E COMMENTARY originating from releases Edward Rowe Howard Kershner A THOUSAND WASTING SPIGOTS According to the U.S. News and World Report: At the federal level, there are nearly lv000 programs for rural development. Think of the overhead involved in operating a thousand programs. Any little town anywhere can get money for a park, a bandstand, sewers, water works or anything it may happen to need or want. This is surely a great help to local finance and many have come to regard it as something for nothing. Herein lies a great delusion. The billions and billions of dollars required to supply these services for thousands and thousands of communities throughout the country all The only gas that should be rationed. Communist snowball into the astronomical' and crushing federal budget with the national debt already approaching the half trillion mark. These programs of federal aid may keep our small communities solvent a while longer, but they are rendering our whole country insolvent. Moreover, they tend to extravagance. When a local community puts up the money to meet a local need, it is done with great care and much searching investigation. When the money comes from Washington, however, the general practice is to be extravagant and to get all that is available. People are careful with their own money, but they are careless with public money. In sum, therefore, the practice of financing local improvements from Washington makes them cost much more than they would if financed locally. It is a sad commentary on the intelligence of our citizens that they have fallen into this foolish and wasteful practice. When one stops to think how ridiculous it is, one perceives how Socialism not only corrupts morals, but destroys judgment as well. The mm I I I 5 for $1.00 12 for $2.00 25 for $3.75 I 50 for $6.50 I 100 for $10.00 I I The Name Address 1 UTAH INDEPENDENT A year ago Congress rolled Citizen. I am' a free man in a free country. I am being over, played dead, and with the approval of the Nixon an by godless must defend communism. or to slavery. submit myself I know that communist leaders plan to slaughter 60 million of us. I know they are atheists and godless. I know they intend to deprive me of whatever possessions I have-ev- en my home. I know they intend to take my business from me. I know they will take away free speech, free press and right of assembly. I know they will destroy all labor unions. I know there will be no unemployment - as all workers will be slaves. I Fastest-Growin- 25t each American am I g Utah's Largest and Subscription Weekly 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 I Assorted copies I Simpson threatened I Independent Made It Clear! I Living Issues, 7960 Crescent Ave. Buena Park, California 90620 J Have Simple Simon know they intend to destroy my church. I know they will destroy my school system. I know they will take my children and teach them as they wish. I know they will break up my home and family life. I know mothers will be deprived of the pleasure of raising their children. I know they will cause me to live under a reign of terror and fear. I know there will be no constitutional "rights to protect me. How do I know all these things? Simply because the communists have said so in their manifesto and have done all these things in the many countries they have taken over. I know there will be no Abraham Lincoln to free us, if we fall to communism. I will fight communism and those leaders who are guiding us toward it. SO HELP ML GOD! Suurtv Unknown administration enacted legislation with the title of Consumer Product Safety Act. The act, as you would expect, gave birth to still another commission in the federal government - the Consumer Product Safety Commission which, of course, sugar-coate- d is supplied with a well paid staff and vast delegated power. I opposed and voted against this legislation on the grounds that its authority to roam the country and harass our citizens was far too broad, and that this government needed still another commission like it needs a My concern has been justified. Let me provide a couple of examples. A few days ago the chairman of the Commission; one Richard O. Simpson, asserted that he is prepared to seek a ban on the sale of cigarettes if an examination hole-in-the-he- confirms the Surgeon General's findings as to the hazards of cigarettes. I carry no banner for any part of the tobacco industry, but it was never the intent of Congress that Simpson and his commission stick their big. long, bureaucratic noses into the sale or use of tobacco. Will Simpson next seek to ban the drinking of coffee because some experts have said that coffee drinking may be productive of cancer and is dangerous to health? Then Simpson went to Newark, New Jersey, and made a speech in which he chided the National Rifle Association and said that while his outfit did not have the authority to control the sale of so-call- ed Continued on page 10 government agencies have inflicted substantial losses on stock values of corporations. It's true that retractions are usually published, but there is by no means any semblance of the attention given to the retraction as is given to the adverse publicity in the original announcement. With the intention of preventing such recurring situations, the Administrative Conference of the U.S., an organization responsible for governmental improving and systems, has procedures published a set of recommended Certainly no one guidelines. wishes to belittle the efforts made by the Administrative Conference, but realistically the guidelines offer little genuine protection for industry. In fact, it is likely that any individual or his supervisor responsible for the release of unreliable or premature information will receive no more than a strong reprimand. Now contrast the action taken against the normally Government P. R. man versus his industrial counterpart who could conceivably release improper sales literature or may err in publishing product quality specifications. The industrial P.R. man may find himself on the unpleasant end of a product liability suit commenced in the Federal Court. Granted, the possibility of such action may not be routine, but recent provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Act impose civil penalties up to S500,000 plus criminal penalties up to S50,000 fine and one year imprisonment for violation of the Act. The Act has placed a tremendous amount of power and influence in the hands of the Product Safety Commission. Furthermore, there are indications that more power will be granted to other agencies. According to most legislators, the reason for imposing stiff fines and penalties was the fact that industry simply would not police itself without such legislation. It is not the intention of the writer to imply? that there is impropriety in government groups,, but tll in ther-peo- ple government position? are no better or worse than .tjicir industry counterparts. Comfcquently, the release of a . pr,ernature or inaccurate wnfllg or (either ifttcntional) unknowingly regarding the salctjli of a given product could 'def irreparable damage to that product line of a large corporation onentircly wipe out a small company. -- Continued on page 3 |