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BURNT CHILD, ANYHOW Yotir Niwtpaptr Kvtr Striving for Fikct Feak Region to bt an avtfi better place In which to live Thla newspaprr ia dedicated to fumlehlnir information to our readeni ao that thejr can better promote and preserve their own freedom and encourage others to see its blessings. Only when man ia free to control himself and All he produces, can he develop to his utmost capabilities. We believe that freedom is a gift from God and not a political grant from government. Freedom is neither license nor anarchy. It is aclf-control.

No more. No iess. It must be consistent with the truths expressed in such rreat moral giiidei as the Coveting Oomnvindment, the Golden Rule and the Declara'- tioa of Independence. Let Peace Begin ith Me Telegraph Friday, July 18, 1969 'Female Power' There is an oW axiom about of several of the leading not underslimating the power of women's organizations to dis- a woman. It is even more diffi-, cuss the problem of crime in cult to measure the combined the community.

Frwn this grew of a group (tf uidividuaij the Anti-Crime Crusade and an women. atmosphere of cooperation be- EMdence of the formidability tween black and white citizens, of coordinated effort by our fe-i TV results range from a male citizens can be found fai' stay-in-school campaign to help a book the tide of school drop- autboried by Mrs. Margaret; outs, to a sprtKX-up campaign, Moore, mother of the which earned a Foun- year in 19K, and her datkm award for Mrs. Mattie law, M. Stanton editor! Coney, a leader of the commu- of the Indianapolis News.

nity. 'The book consists of two Another Indiana city appears parts, the first dealing with a headed in the same direction. BY RUFtS L. PORTER Being a confirmed, dyed-in- the-wool Westerner, though not description of the of An organization known as a born one, I never use toe growing crime and its impact in Concerned Women of South! if our society. The latter section is setting its sights on! can get describes the of the In-: the petty thief in the market! around it This dianapolis Anti-Crime Crusade.

place. This includes the idjosyncracy is Though the section on lawless-i ter and vandal who add to the! ness is shocking the last seven cost of living by increasing; chapters and conclusion (rffer a qperating costs of the 1 0 column plan worth duplicating in other! keeper, troubled areas of our nation. Itj We wish the South Bend tells how the senseless murder ladies well. Perhaps they will erf an elderly scho(rf teacher by write a chapter oif their own a 15-year-old piarse snaUher led' and encourage others to follow to a meeting of presidents! their lead. I hope my readers, especially if they are visitors to the region, have their East Is West gooseberry picking after a wet season.

probably be out there this fall after they ripen. But I believe I love even more the drive from Guffey to Florissant or Lake George. You can take your pick at a fork five miles from either place. Of I course, if you take the Lake George route, you will have to drive four miles back through Florissant, anyway. I killed the biggest buck I ever saw on Blue Mountain five miles south of Lake George and five miles southwest of Florissant.

It was a fim place to hunt not so many years ago. So was Wilkerson Pass. And so were wonders how many kids cwild, or would, do that nowadays. Both our guesses were that not many would even consider it. He also mentioned another Jimmy Camp coal mine that stands right near the Highway just above Jimmy Camp Creek.

Tliis mine siarW until the late 1920s. I remember stopping there they were sinking the shaft. We had then been living several years in Cripple Creek. The shaft was sunk and the mine was owned, according to Tony, by a Mr. Curry who owned the Latonia Apartments on the I I maps with them when and if Sparta Not the Answer note: Please see Surely a man o( wisdom must off from Highway 50 to F.

C. letter, see where the application of Highway 115 is several miles for hunting season, or just be-' The Latonia was a swank chised VotinK in Open such a hj-pothesis would inevi-i EAST of Canon City instead of fore. apartment house, one of the fi- has, indeed, led. I several miles WEST, as I stated THINGS KEEP 1 nest in town, for many years several areas around Buena southeast comer of Platte and Vista, but a better story Avenues. lauiy icau, liiuccu, icu.

scvciaj iiiiica KEEP Quite frankly we regard Mr Curiously enough, this nation. in the column. POPPING UP Warpi inSM IS in Politically consUtuted, start-! However, If they made an Tony Venetucci called again ago. thTvAHno out with 3 Variation of the! error and turned off 10 miles to, this evening, my first article on I The Jimmy Camp mine did suggested. In the begin- the west, they would be on the the Old appeared run long, but the buildings K.Ii 'oing.

only the scxalled road north through Guffey from in GT, and he informed i stood until recent years. All hand, we would iikc to ac- would have thejme that the housing devel-' OPEN PARLIAMENT -MS, The statement! and opinions expressed in this column are oi the contributors and do not necessarily express opinions or convictions held by this paper. Letterc will not be puWisned without the name and address of the writer. Letters must be received at least two days before publication. FRANCHISED VOTING To the Editor: A man of proven wisdom has suggested a society In which only those who have served (military, or a non-combatant equivalent) shall have the vote take part in the management of toe government.

He sees many people, perhaps the majority, not of this veteran franchised group, and probably most professional, not of it. Nation's Press Handout Seekers Santa Ana (Calif.) Register Santa Ana is gokig after some of that federal tax money. It matters not that the federal government is broke and has no money at all. The majority of the council, to the surprise of no cme who has observed the city has decided to hire Dr. Michael W.

Lodato, president of Macro How about some discussion of this hypothesis? F. C. WARE Woodland Paik, Ctolo. note: Please see our editorial, Not the INSPIRED TREATISE Dear Editor: Morality and by G. C.

Roche III out of The Freeman (GT, Jul 11) is the greatest treatise on education that ever read. The writer has to have been inspired from within cm by that greater spirit that he talks about so eloquently. Some years ago, Leonard E. Read sent me a book which he It is my opinicm that only out of ten readers what they have read if read it. I base this opiniwi on my reaction, becausd I not only real it three to times and, in addition, I at intervals, paragraph by par- agraph, to reread in order that I was sure that I had the continuity of the message and messages intact as I attempted to digest the word.

read me wrong as it is a tough subject and highly complicated by 30 years of mediocrity in U.S. Educational endeavors.) I agree that there is any limit to use of brain power; of course, if the owner of the brains refuses to use had written that showed the them, naturally, his brain same elements (rf divine inspiration. However, for about three or four years now not readj the Freeman or their works, etc. Wm. T.

(OP, GT, Jul 12) a reminder of A. J. lament. do you teach analytical geometry to a bunch of power is limited by his indo- leiKC, perhaps just plain lazi- HERBERT ROUSE 14 N. Walnut TEMPERATE ATTITUDES To the Some sixty years ago a homesteader stopped at our ranch more or less attentive isj out east of town.

As he stood up quite illustrative of the dilemma I in his spring wagon he began of nine wit of ten readers who! jabbering at me. A wild looking Systems Associates, for had the good fortune to peruse creature he was, soaked with plus expenses, for preparing ap-j Morality drink. He had tarried too long plication forms for a federal on the editorial over in Old Town. Colorado grant design and implement! page the night before. (continued on next page) a municipal information sys- whatever that is.

I City Manager Carl said research grants of up to $400,000 each will be made to cities to develop a system of putting together police data and; other public safety information. He said governments usually cannot afford to expend this amount of money on a basic research project when the results are not The city manager said the city last year hired a professional computer programming service at $2,500 a month to de- 'TORCH OF FREEDOM By DB. F.A. HARPER Interest Rate Speculation As this is written, interest up to 10 per cent and I borrow and was dismantled not too long! a serv- soar-: at figure. ice, which was after six months discontinued because the ertied was enfranchised.

commodate him; and, certainly it is a most provocauve subject common other tmnd. past, choice of three routes back toiopment known as Vil- that is left now is a small mine dump. I remember meeting the Springs (four, really), was built on Thomas, the Welsh Guf- enoe or Lake George to Highway 24 and thus back to the Springs. They oouW choose to land. It was built by Abraham-j super of the Pike View mine out son, but he named it in honor of there the day we stopped.

It the former owners. The Vene- tuccis are from an old Venetian family. Their name means Mr. Ware 'has with provocative and we have responded as coerave jecuvely as we how, haVI. bin of attacking h.m sanH Bnardiy 3nd both mor-l and take their choice of goingi Tony also told me of driving lal and economic collapse.

through Florence or those big five-ton coal wagons drive east from Guffey to the, citizen of Venice, and so the Cripple Oeek-Florissant roadi Venetian Village was bom. assassination. What to do? Perhaps Mr. Ware. himseU, Political government (including the casting of ballots), we IS socialism And socialism, in all its various and maybe Victor and out to the Deaf and Blind School thence to the Springs via Highway 67 to nxJte 24 at Divide, or via the Camp road all the way.

Ch" they could turn right and unloading toem in an hour when he was just a kid. And he was the last time I ever saw him. I recall what happened to him, but I am quite sure he left the area soon after that. He was a good super, but he like wintertime holidays. He said all holidays should come during toe sununer when there much demand for coal.

that the ideas are advanced iwt stripped off the Guffey road a couple of I bare and exposed, as being mo-i miles past the end of the pave- nLiiwi irf nrnvpn wis intellectually, and prag-j menl at a bridge near a ranch oom- uur response, mere anUthesis of High Park and come back on aU of its various forms, all of the Guffey-Cripple Creek road which have a buiK-in necessity at a junction a half mile response, duly noting that the qualification, other than that he has a sparta- nized, prussianized society, are not be directed to the IDEAS of that unidentified person. Firstly, we must object to the use of tiw word in conjunction with the political ballot. That the vote is a politically bestowed privilege, to be given or taken at will, rather than a right, whidi accrues to EVERY individual virtue of his very existence, is made quite plain by the suggestion that it be tendered to a favwed group while being withheld from those less favored. Secondly, we must also object to the use of the word in conjunction with the act of voting or in the management of govemmrat. Since, when (tojec- lively viewed, both the poUticai process and political government itself are instruraents designed to permit SOME people to impose THEIR wills upon OTHER the word atoen used in this sense, carries the implication that SmE people have a DUTY to rule OTHER people; a hpyo- thesis which we reject out of hand.

Thirdly, and lastly, let us see what the suggestion really says. It says this: That only those who have served the God of the Atanigfaty State, who have been trained and conditioned to accept and pass on ordm in a regimented, tax-siqpported envi- rcnmeiA, have the and the to the politicai vote and to participate in the oC And, of dimination, it says this: That all those who create and produce the means of supporting that government and all of what we loosfy call who grow tlie food, fauUd the bouses, man the factMies, and gather the capital and to do aU thb-will, thereby be dis- from such paitkipa- tioo tntil socb time as they, too, have bowed down to the State (which is people) and learned to The American Way Odds Are With the House of throwing men at each throats is the market place, freedom of choice and voluntary exchange; in short, individual SEXF government. Having tried everything else, let us, with Bastiat, now try Quick Quiz from the West Fourmile community house and fair grounds. And all of the drives mentioned are well worth taking, despite the dirt roads. They are very pleasant nwuntain highways, they get you away from the main streams oi traffic and permit you to enjoy the wonderful scenery, the quiet peacefulness, the pristine loveliness of ---------------------------------------I practically untouched mountain it possible to grow; you may see a few wheat in the Arctic regions? or many deer and other wild Yes, wheat will grow animals, the equator or at tlw I love the drive across High Circle.

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11 I quote: superbly endowed in the brains department you are One of my spectacular intellectual wipeouts concerns insurance. I have never understood the big type, much less the head-of-a-pin stuff at the bottom which tells all the ways the company can get out of paying. I can follow tte general trend of insurance, which is that it is a sort of gamble with the odds against the customer, for the very same reason the house always wins at roulette. It is a question of odds, probabilities, statistics and An actuary, in my circles, is know as an oddsmaker, and we refer to insurance companies as bo(rfues. That way, I understand, 1 understand.

1 did not say this of Jim Comer because is very large in insurance and understands all about things like subrogation and double-alining, candy striped, liccHice-flavored annuities. I drive my insurance men mad by a numskull approach to afiairs which are, to them, as light as the candles on the altar of truth. 1 am presently involved trying to understand a pension plan which (tofies c(Hnprehen- sion. It is insanely constructed so as to satisfy the computerized heart of the Internal Revenue Service. It involves trust funds and insurance policies and a 3 6-page document whkto is, even when properly put together, beyond uoder- standng of man bom of woman; but this saddle by transposing two pages of the thing.

1 know it was transposed until I noticed that the page numbers consecutive. I put the pages in order and damn if it read just as well when he had it all bollixed up. I would never admit this to Jim. There is, however, some consolation. I have asked our insurance guy and the trustee of our fund to give me a complete rundown on this beast, explaining as to a moist-nosed child the basics of this plan and, most particularly, how it stacks up fiscally.

They said, yeah, sure, give us a day or two and have it all laid out on a platter so any idiot can understand it, even you. Ha! It is now three weeks, and when I ask them about it they say there is some fellow in Atlanta, or Faith, N. who has the key to the monkey- house and as soon as he gets out of restraint he will give us the straight poop. I am not anti-insurance, believe me. 1 guess maybe like passion: if you try to figure it out, forget it.

The only insurance which gets me sore is the package the government peddles, the so-called Social Security canard. If this is insurance, then I am a liberal Democrat. It is, to my way of thinking, a form of swindle, a tool of political power, a source of inflation and an instrument of deception. Aside from that okay. I have a visceral objection to having to buy the against my will and better I object to the use teing made of the funds, and I suspect that a government which would perpetrate such a diddle would not hesitate to pay off In no-cent dollars some day.

Well, got to do with how dumb 1 am about insurance; but I feel better now that gotten it of my systenL Peace, me right out the lean Way Features. ing. They may be headed 1 think that 1 need to borrow more summary data provided was al- the stratosphere where the Suppose it most as complex to read supply could become exhausted should be 12 per cent by then? I through as the basic information. With that experience it would and the occupants dumped reason that better borrow it (without any when 1 need it (yet) have hit per and save 2 per cent; so I bor- seem the city would be a little cent and the talk in Europe is row it and thus add to the demand for money. This demand more careful about expending that they may go on up to 15 money for something in which per cent.

results are not Bui so the council is going after some of it. As we have pointed out many times, the federal government has been spending more than it has taken in for many years. And much of the spending has been oi schemes like the one being undertaken by the City of Santa Ana. The overspending by federal agencies on the various programs is the principal reason behind the terrible inflation that is destroying the buying -power of earnings and causing more and more demands for higher pay just to keep up with living costs. But the council majority of Mayor Lorin Griset members Walter Brooks, Jerry Patterson and Ray Villa voted to go after some of that money.

Opposing were Vice Mayor Wade Herrin and Thomas Thurman, who object to the loss of local control which always comes with tax money from Washington The majority also authorized the city manager to other federal aid programs. Mr. Herrin pointed out that it is like youths who say else is taking dope, we might as well We foresee the council getting on the dqpe of that expensive federal money and being unable to break the habit, once the controls from Washington are out in the But, it seems, pditicians never learn. When I taught marketing at a university years ago, major emphasis was placed on the price influence in the market place. The general idea is that a person (consumer) wants less ofitation anything at a high price than a low price; that a person (producer) will provide more supplies at a high price than at a low price; that a person fluence curbs any price rise above the free market level (and also curbs a drop below it).

It is as simple as that. The free market allows seeming miracles to occur. Government controls prevent them from occurring, no matter who is in control. Interest is the price for borrowed money. One may then ask why interest rates keep soaring.

Why the rise in interest rates reduce demand enough to curb the rise? In what we vaguely call rising interest rates do curb demand. But interest by its nature has a third time, dimension. Interest is the price of money over time. And this introduces a new and complex feature to our simple idea of the influence of price on demand. Let us say that I needed to borrow money a while back for something.

The rate had then risen to 6 per cent. This seemed too high and I decided to wait a little for it to drop back to 5 per cent. But soon it is up to per cent instead. I wait some more TTien it is 7 per cent (I wait); 8 per cent (I wait); finally, it Is is not a real demand in usual meaning of the word (to finance a purchase or build an addition to my factory); it is purely speculative demandir which rests solely on the expec- that interest rates are even higher at later time. This expectation is not self-correcting as long as speculation continues to be self- generating.

Thus time, an inherent feature of money, introduces speculation into interest rates. It causes interest rates to go up now because it is expected that they will go up later. TTiis is precisely toe kind of speculation that occurs elsewhere and with which we are times past we have seen such speculative bubbles in commodities, Florida real estate, South Seas Dutch tulips, and the like. Now we are seeing it in interest rates. How high will interest rates go before they collapse? One thing governments have never been able to control is the.

p.sychology of mass man in of crisis or panic. They can bend it a little by bending facts they report, and by other such devices. But their ability to control is limited and has a tendency toward recoil and, in crisis, makes matters just that much worse when the fuel is exhausted up there in the stratos- phere and the occupants are dumped out without any parachutes. When this will occur, or from what height, is beyond the ken of man. Thcyll Do It Every Time THE MAITRE AND THE CAPTAINS HERBCAUNIUA 4342 LOMM NO.

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