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TMr FfMOWH Ivtr StrMng ftr tfw Rlltw Rwk te bt pUNW in wklttt te livt This ntmripnpcr dsdicsicd to informatlaB to our rwderi no that ttey cna promoto nnd ypenervn tbdr own froedom and otliari to aee ita Only when man la frac to control himaalf and aU can he develop to hla utmoat oapabiUtkia. We baUere that fraedom fa a gift trom God and not a political grant from goranunant. Fraadosn fa xialtliar lioaiaa nor anarchy. It la aelf-controL No more. No lere.

It muat ba oon- with tha tratha axixeaaad la audi great morel guidaa the Caretlng Commandment, tha Goldai Rule and tha Hoa aC Indepandanca. Let Peace Begin With Afa Talagraph Friday, July 11, 1969 Loct! The Good Old Days By L. PORTER good old mean only one we were younger then. Each generation remembers its own good oid days and tbei offspring ways what was good abo them. An when we Shades of Female Steers! ghost is staUdng the notes the National Feder- call, price controls under OPA brought about some weird cold appraisal of Our own good old days, we may wonder also.

But the way it has been for countless generations and will probably continue to be. Tony Venetucci called me one evening recently and we got about 12 he started driving coal now the Springs branch of C. U. Curtis had its own post office bade in the good days. He his teyhood In Papetown, another coal town north of the Springs and now a part of it and also a part oi one of the better housing developments.

I mentioned attending a meeting of some kind once in the Union Hall in Papetown and he said, lived within a block of where old union hall Hi lived on his ranch in Foiav tain Valley iot years, but is now rettred, although he still takes an active interest in the ranch and drives out there, or four times a father was a coal miner and when Tony was Singing ilndividual SCftrla (ab.) Tllak drink Law ol Mow (rar.) Indian woodyvino I iiisdiuol Stir in Oiioo nsSSiwdlaa UApdmttHba ba ofBrttona UCatMMfan natfre 20 How (OOBflhb ACS088 SMMkal (eoiDb.lonq) lITbooryol ouccaariott of lOIMt IS Aim IgStrikwa OPEN PARLIAMENT The statements and opinions expressed In this column are those of the contributors and do not necessarily express opinions or convictions held by this newspaper. Letters will not be published without the name and address of the writer. Letters must be received at least two days before publication. Jition of Independent me in iU Jui, .5 bnifeUn. The referred to is a now defunct federal bureaucracy, the Office of ITice Admin- istritioo, better known as OPA, which once issued a regulation ordering the slaughter of But bureaucracies chief and most harmful effect of price controls, however, may have been their encouragement to lie, cheat and wheeler-deal.

In the economy of scarcity brought about by the controls I black markets flourished. Those refuse to who could afford the remain defunct; they merely go'p i were accommodated; into hiding until the opportune to reappear. hanged, drawn and quartered over twenty years ago amid tumultuous quipped the federation bulletin, the rit of OPA (the World War Two price control bureaucracy) appears to be And, as paradoxical as it may seem, the socialistic OPA is being revived, not by the democrat outs, as one expect but by the republican ins, who were elected the premise that they would return the country to economic and fiscal sanity. Used, ostensibly, as a by Treasury Secretary, David Kennedy, to force a predominantly democratic congress to go along with rienced the demand for an school, extension of the ten percent income tax surtax, the prospect and in government, was to hold of price controls, imposed by a jail Iminessmen as suspect. those who could not did without.

As a consequence, when attempts were made to continue OPA after the war, the government move was greeted with a storm of outraged public protests and charges of insane red tape, bureaucratic arrogance, gestapo tactics, corruption and graft. OPA was allowed to quietly expire. Nevertheless, as in the federation bulletin, OPA bad a kng-lasting and detrimental influence on government toward the world of business and market place freedom of was curved the federation, the fact that almost a vast new federal bureaucracy was created largely out of young, inexpe- people just out of Thus, their first experience in the working world. talking about the coal mines that used to keep the Springs citizens supplied with heat f(Mr cooking hot water and for warmUi in winter. Twiy and his brother will be remembered in the present day as the triKdt gardners in Fountain Valley.

Their sweet com is the best you ever ate and their name is always mentioned when the com hits the market and wherever it goes on display in the grocery stores, including the supermarkets. But Tony was bom shortly after the turn of the Clentury in a coal town called Curtis which was located in what later became the Clragmow area and is supposedly conservative chief executive, must have the of both parties laughing in high glee. The likelihood now is that, not only will the phmder- ing surtax be extended, but that the American will be saddled with amipetition-killing, black market-creating price controls as well After abditiim of OPA many of Utose who started government service in this bureau stepped into higher government posi tioM without receiving any training or expoience to ter the that was their indoctrination into And this is the bureaucratic outrage that Kennedy, Nixon's Treasury Secretary, is threaten As those ancients (thirty andjing to reimpose upon the Ameri- over) among us may weU re-'can people. wagons from the mines to the many dealers in the Springs and Colorado (now West Side). Some of those wagons were still in use uivtil the early In 1914 there were hundreds of them.

They Were huge five-ton wagons with real wide- tired wheels. Tony never worked in the mines, but he drove the big wagons for years. He hauled coal from many of the in the area. The coal in this area is lignite, a lower iprade than the Canon coal which is one of the best grades of bitumini- ous coal? The moneyed people in the Springs prefered the Canon coal, it was also used by the railroads and scnne of the industries. The popular name for lignite was because, the users, you lug coal in all night and lug ashes out all the next day.

Lignite leaves much ashes than bitu- ihinous coal. In fact, the ash pile is nearly as big as the coal pile, but not so heavy, some even swwe the stuff swelled while burning. Bui it was mined locally and was a lot cheaper than coal. And enough of BY BOB ROCQUE was used to keep many mines QUESTION: What do Some of the mines were think of new right very large and a few worked many men. The Pike View mine out at Pike View village, in those days 21 Sloping wnr SOptratkaofe 31 Lady muokiam SSTkbla (wnaiBtBta 37 Small inland 3 8 -----lama 38 Mindanao nativa d2Edibkrool 41 Canadian provinoa 45 Cold ngioa SODimay SSBouyutmif SSSfaifer 57 Willow fem SSRocluaoo 59 Progony DOWN llbcteniiva 2Cotnmotiaii 3CniiiiQg ZlNiMBMoaci (con.) aiKindoladiool lOHigbestmala (odL) 37Vodkfodof ilWondorlond altar fira oxoort 29 noma 43 Mimilaa SOBowildcrod 46Moakmboly 32 Far man tona) 47Modam 33 Motamofpliic pointor rock ISAncimtGredc city noma 51 Small bird SePwcfa 32Chcmkal 39 plant kuffix 55 Small child MOW rr iT rr12 IF il nr MM il rr 1 ITj il sr ST VMM (0 ar mmm SI 12 sT 6T fT IT 11 TALENTS IN FREEDOM ident on behalf (rf their captured To the Editor: missing men it Is legitimate In a recent visit to that i 1 I afraid however Sprmgs, President Richard cause they do not want anything to interfere with the President troop withdrawal plans whic seem to have popular support.

Nevertheless, any outfit which stands up for the GI, for loyalty to the GI, ought to be Dear Mr. President: On behalf of this organization President Richard Nixon spotlighted in his speech three of blessings to the Pikes Peak region: a healthy climate, talented people, and beautiful architecture. We know that the climate has led here, and is keeping here, many talented people: business leaders, philanthropists, educators men, many others. It is blessing for all of us that we have blessed kin of captured and missing American fighting men it requested that you demand in such with inspiration as Russeli Tutt, each percentage Thayer Tutt and others who withdrawn from with and through the El Pomar Vietnam the Communists libe- (Nretgapar Am.) Viewed by Sensing New Rhodesian Policy IS turn on red law? Tkrry CU ou I Sheppard TERRY CUNE. 1047 Montrose: is okay as long as everybody knws about LOUISE SHEPPARD, 1814 S.

Nevada: saves time and causes less traffic BY THURMAN SENSING The spirit that animated the American colonists 193 years ago this past July Fourth rare in the con- tempor ary world. 'The colonists on the! Atlantic sea- when they decided in 1776 to declare their' independence of Great Britain form a repub- six miles north of town but now wanted to stand on their The 'Third World' In 1945, in an address at rican-Asian Westminster, Coliegc, Win- Nations, ston Churchill noted that, Iron curtain has descended across the The term lias been in common usage since. Now another European has given us a term which seems destined for popular in intematiooal affairs. It is Third a graphic label employed by the Foreign Minister of Portugal, Dr. Franco Nogueira, to delineate the nonaligned, neutral and underdeveloped countries which play the Western world and the worid against eadi other endlessly, as to derive every possible advantage from is all reminiscent of the antics of a spoilt says Dr.

Nogueira, takes advantage of the bickering of its separated parents to gain ito own He notes that Marxist China and regard themselves as members of the Third Worid and arrogate to themselves leadership of it, although the number countries are primarily whidi have in an Af- bloc at the United claiming, by accusing, by blaming writes Nogueira, countries of the Third World arrogate to themselves the status of nations in the intematiooal scene. Within framework of this status, they create a body of new ideologieal notions, or of motions put forward as such, from which they consider themselves to be exempt but by which the rest are expected to abide; and they invoke Western Principles against the West while considering themselves to be conforming to them. More than any others, the countries of the 'Third Wwld constantly invoke democracy, individual liberty, peace, noo-interfermce in the internal affairs of others; but practice to a greater extent so great a denial of these concepts. To our mind the prize sm- tence in Dr. book about the Third Worid is this pdnt of fact, it is found that the Soviet Union and the United States bear with indifference and face with equanimity the criticisms, the attacks, the dis- agreemento whkh come from nationf that do not belong to the KaaaaUi Janes TwMdlay KENNETH BARZEE, 11275 Forest Edge is good as long as everybody is careful.

taking advantage (rf JAMES TWIDDLEY, 45 Monk think it is good as long as everybody obeys the law and the traffic allows Kafoa rmitr N. Laotaaachlaaar KAREN FERRIER, Lytle Star Route: like NOEL LAUTENSCHLAGER, 2007 Capulin: think it is Third World; but they exhibit the utmost and most perplexed concern before the slightest criticism any country that belongs to that in the city limits, was the largest of the bunch and worked from 200 to 300 men. It was working 250 when I worked there for a short spell in the fall of 1919. It was still working about the same number when I worked there again in the winter of 1921-1922. TlKn I took my young wife and newly bom daughter and went back to the gold mines.

Tony asked if I had ever i worked for the Pike View Coal Company and I told him about my two short spells underground there. Then he asked If I ever knew, W. 0. Corley, and I said, yes, I was working for him on his Klondike mine north of Pike- View when I got married and until he closed down a few months He allowed i man to make money on a tract, and my partner, Sam Orr, and I did very well until the mine closed. That job was between my two jobs on the Pike View mine.

Sam still lives in the north end. He is a Sc(Hsman. His brother in-law, the late Alex another Scotsman, was for years the champion bag-piper of Colorado. Then Tony and I got to talking of the various other mines and trying to remember them all. I wrote down their names, and they are quite a number and, no doubt, we missed a few.

I am out of space, so I will continue this in another column Sunday. Nation's Who Gets How Much? (Christian Economics) Continuing and persistent efforts are being made by labor union leaders to put the blame for high prices and olter ravages of inflation upon what are said to be Mention is never made of the fact that about half of the dividends paid in our country are paid from one corporation to another. Such income is used by the receiving corpcx'ations to pay dividends to their stockholders. SUCH PAYMENTS ARE, THEREFORE, COUNTED TWICE and the dividnxi figure becomes nearly twice as large as it would be if these payments were counted only once. Hie way to put these in their relationship is to compare the wage and salary incomes of individuals with corporation dividends paid to individuals.

The Internal Revenue Service has just Ismed a statement of Income 1967, Indi- Inctmie Tax In this document we find that huh- iMoal taxpayers were paid 1468.5 biUioo in 1916 and IS04.I own feet. The majority of new nations, formed in the post- World War II years, had this desire. On the trary, they expected other nations to bear their burdens and provide them with the financial means oi development. The most notable exception to this post-war pattern has been Rhodesia, which on June 20 held a constitutional referendum and voted to become a republic. Three and a half years ago, the Rhodesians declared their independence of Great Britain.

They did not break their ties with the British Crown, however. Because the vast majority of educated Rhodesians are of British origin, and many of their Prime Minister Ian bravely for Britain in World War II, they sought to retain ties to the motherland. Repeatedly, the leadership met with Prime Minister Harold of Britain and other officials in London, trying to agree on constitutional arrangements satisfactory to botli peoples and governments. Tlie Rhodesian good will mattered for nothing, however, inasmuch as the socialist government of Great Britain was bent on appeasing the Afro- Asian extremists in the monwealth. 'Drese extremists would be satisfied with nothing less than the liquidation of independent Rhodesia.

Finally, the Rhodesians lost patience, and decided their only alternative was to form a republic. The British government, in its haste to bring down the Rhodesian government, imposed economic and enlisted other governments, including the Johnson administration, in resorting to means of injuring economy. The Rhodesians, like the American colonists after July 4, 1778, refused to bend thcfr necks or abandon their fight for independence. The Americans of almost two centuries ago found a good friend in France. The Rhodesians, in their struggle for economic survival, learned that several European nations were eager to participate in the economic growth.

Thus Rhodesia has continued to receive foreign investment and has found markets for its goods. Because of Executive Orders issued by President Johnson, American free enterprise has not been permitted to participate in the of one of the few African countries with a stable and sidsstantial economic future. Ironically, the ban on trade with Rhodesia has caused the U. S. to import of Soviet Russia, a major enemy of freedom.

In the eyes of Washington officialdom, it is better to deal with communist Russia than with anti-communist Rhodesia. Many thoughtful British parliamentarians realize the folly of British policy towards Rhodesia. If the Conservative Party were returned to power tomorrow, sensible diplomatic and trade relations with Rhodesia would be established. But Prime Minister Wilson and the Labor Party are the victims of their socialist dogmas which deem it intolerable for educated men to direct the governmental affairs of an African nation with a large, underdeveloped population. It is time, however, that the United States government catering to the prejudices of the British Labor government.

The Rhodesians are no different than the millions of Americans who want law and order in their comunities. The Rhodesians, who have built up their country and government and financed it since 1923, cannot accept their reversion to savagery. Since they declared their independence in 1965, the Rhodesians have seen the tragic example of misrule in Nigeria and the resulting outbreak of black against black in the Nigerian Biafran war. Understandably, they will not accept a form of government that could lead to tribal strife in their own happy land. The Nixon administration, which is alert to the for a greater degree erf order at home, should be to the wish progress aiKl stability.

For the last decade, U. S. policy toward Af- Foundation are fertilizing the percentage legendary growth of Colorado! they hold. Springs in the name of good forestall the holding wiU to all men. in Vietnam for The U.

S. President called at- a a i 1 as the Commu- tention to our architecture, I did our POWs in naming it remarkable, take a firm stand on it and ing. Hiis is a high recognition stick to it. The Reds learned for the profession of Korea that some U. S.

ture and the men behind it. do not back their However, we should remember that only a free man is able to press his dreams, his talent, his art interpretation in the design of a structure and create legendary monuments for centuries to come. There are many such m.onu- ments today in the Colorado captured GIs, so they used them for blackmail, demanding that the U. S. abandon Taiwan (Formosa) to them as the price of even discussing the release of Red-held Americans.

(See letter State Department to Sen. Hart, July 2, 1963). You may fear this will jeopar- Springs area: the Air Force dize your withdrawal plans, if a legend of Reds refuse to comply. But tecture; the Qiase Stone is high time that some presi- a monument for free show some loyalty from erprise and business; the tem- the top down to the Gis in re- ples of culture and turn for the supreme loyalty Charles L. Tutt Library, Pen--from the Gis to the President rose Library, Broadmoor com-1 and the Government by giving plex.

Fine Art Center, church-1 their liberty or their lives. es, and others. There was no loyalty from the Our talented and free archi-jtop down when the Pueblo crew tects are professionally abandoned to a year of Red ized in the American Institute when the cases of the of Architects, and they are the 389 U. once known to ones behind these wonders of be aUve from the Korean War architectural art in the Colo- were swept under the rado Springs area. Recently, I had the opportun ity to meet some of these A.I.A.

people, such as Carlisle Guy. Mike (Filins, John TenEyck and others. I became a fan of this profession. I also learned that this remarkable professional organization, the Southern Chapter of the Colorado A.I.A., completed professional design and construction docum.ents for the Latvian Freedom Fountain as a compliment for the project. With deep appreciation, I accepted this gift from the A.I.A and sincerely hope that the project, constructed in front of the Chase Stone Center, will serve in this city as an artful piece of architecture and a reminder of greatest blessing for all A.

J. EGLITIS 313 La Clede Ave. rug; when the murder of 31 of our sailors recently in a unarmed plane went reprisal would have meant loyalty to and protection of our Gis against future atrocities. This would mean a political risk to you and your withdrawal plans; but must our be the only to risk anything? you owe them the loyalty of taking a risk for them? Remember that those Gis have risked all they have for you and for us, and have lost all they or their lives. EUGENE R.

GUILD USA, Ret. Box 915 Glenwood CkjJo. Quick Quiz Whioh is the ol- Roman Catholic universi- dest ty? A Georgetown University, founded in 1789, at Washington, DC. structive policy towards Africa by granting diplomatic recognition to Rhodesia and by permitting resumption of normal rica has involved catering to ir-trade. LETTER TO NIXON To the Editor: I am hewing the news miriia editors will recognize that wten an organization of the kith and kin of the missing makes ai reas(Miable request (such as the! Is there a difference in following letter) of the Presi-j length between the front and hijjd legs of a giraffe? responsible new regimes.

It is' A The front legs appear to time that U. S. policy in this be longer than the hind ones, area reoriented, with special they are all the same attention to those countries that length, have the quality leadership toi raise the living standards of all! the meaning of the people. President NixonFlorence? could open a new era of con- name means What is thef hardest material in the human body? A The enamel that covers the crown of a tooth. WERE AWARE OF HER PUP, THO billion in 1967 an increase of 7,8 percent.

Salaries and wages were $381.1 billion in 1966 and $412 lUliqp in increase of 8.1 percent. Dividends paid to individuals were $14 billion in 1966 and $14.1 billkm in increase of I than three quarters of percent. Salaries and wages accounted br 81.6 of total gross tncome of individuals.in 1967, while dividends for the same fmt accounted for 2.8 percent oi the income of individuals..