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Show Page 2, Utah Independent November The BM The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 15, 1973 uni Independent COMMENTARY KERSHNER-ROW- E READERS OUTLOOK "1 25 MOCKERY TO JUSTICE Dedicated To Dear Editor: I have witnessed the trial, conviction and sentencing of The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Marvin Cooley. I regret that more people did not learn what I learned through this experience. During this trial Mr. Cooley was denied a Free men can vote themselves into slavery, chance to submit evidences or but slaves cannot vote themselves free. witnesses that were relevant to his case. However, the prosecution lUllllllllllUIllllS was allowed all the evidence or uiutniiiuiiu'M witnesses they desired. Later when Mr. Cooley found new evidence to introduce, he asked for a al and was denied that also. S. Benson Dr. George by During the trial Mr. Cooley WHAT TO DO? stated numerous times that he was A recent Associated Press news not against taxes. What he is report on the comparative military this Government What would, opposing is illegal taxation, strength of Soviet Russia and the ' been had done have uThe asserted: unlawful seizure of private United States Kissinger Soviet Union has taken advantage kidnapped for such ransom? What property and the tyrannical of the American slowdown (in would be done if the American practices of the I.R.S. I were Marvin Cooley has always been kidnapped? National Defense production) to President all-oLatin view the honest and forthright. They would embark on an technological personally blackmail Communist American aimed at have loved to convict him of development program and the expanding' operations perjury but never could. He was global military supremacy. as of a world wide testing not epidemic official government trying to cheat the government. According to L J He was attempting to bring to light reports I have at hand, the Russians have achieved that the illegal and immoral practices of run to Were going supremacy. many of our officials and to awaken an appathetic people to the down the lists of military hardware awful state we are in. of the two major powers,but first I sat lets take note of another strategy through several hearings and heard three federal judges of the Communists. blackmail instrument of The suspend the sentences of numerous convicted criminals such as rapists, now has become a frightening, drug pushers, thieves, smugglers disruptive Communist weapon. and prostitutes. The Ford Motor Company They turned in with cities Cuba our hundreds of convicted criminals recently dramatized how far its use arrayed In fiction the the loose on society again without even story, has extended when it paid more targeted. States United surrendered. as fine. Yet, behold, what they did a than 51,000,000 in Argentina I do not believe we would to an honest citizen, who is a friend blackmail to Communists just, on the threat that Ford Company surrender; but the eventuality to all patriotic Americans! executives would be killed. A few grows as Soviet military might Marvin Cooleys trial was a so much becomes our than weeks later the same kind of greater mockery to justice. I wouldnt have I think w'e would- fight blackmail was used against own. believed it could happen to us, if 1 another big American corporation nevertheless, but it would be a hadnt personally witnessed it. Im in Latin America. And earlier. tragically costly fight if we failed to proud to know Marvin Cooley. He is walking a lonely road. We owe American diplomats and officials bolster our weakening defenses. (JSSR SUPERIOR MIGHT other governments had been him much. facts The from Communist ransomed following concerning Ruth B. Petersen Evidence was the present military hardware of Chandler, Arizona blackmailers. introduced in a Pennsylvania the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. court, in the Berrigan case. came to me from the Department Dear Editor: indicating that President Nixon's of Defense in the Pentagon: Russia today has more Just a few passing thoughts. Henry foreign policy chief, If we are so concerned with had been a target of based nuclear missiles than the with the payoff United States and is testing new helping to feed Red China why kidnappers being U. S. withdrawal from ones. The Russians already have a dont we simply lend them a plow so that they can convert their Vietnam on Communist terms. Continued on page 4 poppy fields into food production? old expression, As free as I theThe we has now grown I to beair one breathe, of our most expensive luxuries. How did Nixon qualify himself Utah's Largest and Fastest-Growin- g Subscription Weekly to become a top executive? Wasnt 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 it by trying to run a used car lot? What a break for America if he I Assorted I had only stuck with it. I We are told that the American I Eagle is in danger of becoming extinct. The nation which 2 months sponsors this noble bird is having survival problems also. 20 $1.00 - FACTS ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY re-tri- ut . - IN PASSING land-Kissing- er, The Independent 25t each 5 for $1.00 12 for $2.00 25 for $3.75 50 for $6.50 copies older than for I I Subscriptions: $6 per year $8 foreign The Name $10.00 UTAH INDEPENDENT 1 (First) Address 100 for (Mddle) (Last) (Number And Street) (City) (Slav) l&P Code) i I Some of the environmental supporters are crying Preserve the wilderness. Seems that there was a different struggle going on in your state when the Mormons landed in Utah. They came west to conquer the wilderness and did a splendid job, too. Most of these wilderness advocates couldn't survive for twenty four hours in the wilderness anyway. Being an with Scotch tendencies, I Irishman, cant help wondering how much it costs each year trying to control the fires that burn these wildernesses which must be preserved. Respectfully, , A. M. Hix Continued on page 3 Howard Kershner Edward Rowe HE THAT FINDETH HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT A Copley News Service dispatch appearing in the Santa g Ana Register apprises that the number of civilian employees in the federal government has nearly doubled during the past ten years and that total salaries for the group have almost quadrupled. There were 2,752 super-grad- e persons in 1963. By July of this year their numbers had increased to 4,909. The salary cost for this group was 549,105,000 in 1963 and 5172,831,000 as of June 30 this year. Moreover many of these executives have large offices and staffs resulting in increased salary costs for employees top-rankin- below the super grades. Fringe benefits for the people in this group are also very liberal and amount to about 16 percent of the payroll. As of June 30 of this year there were about 2,800,000 civilian federal employees. On the whole they are better paid than their counterparts in private industry. Vacation, sick leave and other privileges are more generous. The lowest paid presidential appointee makes S36.000 a year. When the top people are so generous with themselves, is it any wonder that the rank and file is unhappy. We shall never conquer the problem of inflation until we learn to stop trying to consume more than we are producing. Issuing more money does not produce more goods it only drives - prices higher. The fantastic salary and wage increases that have taken place since World War II could not have happened without a corresponding increase in the quantity of money. We are too selfish and too ignorant of economic facts and processes to maintain our freedom, our and our prosperity. The only way to save ourselves from the vicious circle of increasing the quantity of money accompanied by proportionate wage and price increases is to reactivate the restraints imposed upon all of us by the observance of the moral law of God. W'e must learn to tell the truth and to refrain from coveting and stealing. We must live by the Golden Rule and stop thinking selfish advantages over our fellows. An honest man in a free market gains wealth only by serving his fellows. In socialism or government-manage- d self-governme-nt economy he gains it through the exercise of political power. The stronger groups get more at the expense of the weaker groups. Trying to have more by increasing the quantity of money and upping our wages will work for a time for the stronger pressure groups but in the end it will destroy our dollar, confiscate the savings of the thrifty generations that have preceded us and bring upon the people of our country intolerable suffering. 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