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Show The Days 737 In Retire Will B. Maw Private Life Herbert to i & ” Published every alternate Friday F. L. Jensen, Publisher 72 T Street, Dial A Specialist in Neglected Truth Salt City, $2.00 coe SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 25, 1942 VOL. III, NO. 17. Lake 5-3989 Utah a year TM 10c PER COPY So The People May Know! A new menace to government by the people is threatened retary of the Chamber evo His of Gus in Utah. P. Backman, of Commerce, Excellency, Herbert B. sec- and alter Maw, is sponsoring a proposed legislative bill to give Governor Maw a legal right to suspend or modify ‘‘any statute interfering with the war effort’’. Certain purported safeguards are ineluded the in proposed bill. The technical lan- ouage employed in the measure provides that action may be initiated ‘‘upon the request of the President, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Attorney-General of the United States’’; such suspension must oceur when the State Legislature is not in session, and must have the approval of the Attor- ney-General of Utah. But after the action is once. taken, the Governor, without any other official collaboration, ‘“‘from time to time, in his discretion, may amend, revoke, or rescind any such order’’. Naturally, Gus P. Backman will be on hand with help his invaluable assistance and advice to His Excellency determine what amend- ments are necessary. the end of constitutional government, as we whatever for know it, is in sight. Moreover, there is no need it. The Federal Government is conducting the war and has full authority for any action needful in that effort. But if there be any need for econeurrent State action requiring modification or repeal of any law, it is better, a thousand times over, that the Legislature be called into special session every other day than to risk any extension of executive powers into the field of the legislative and judicial branches. The suggestion comes as an affront to men and women who value their unrestricted citizenship. Thousands of Utahns, including the writer, have sons in the armed forces fighting to preserve the very principles of ment that are menaced from within. And Utah is not without recent govern- experience in excessive powers vested in the Executive, Herbert B. Maw. The last two years have shown the utter folly of a further extension of such Herbert powers. B. Maw That is to is particularly true if exercise the proposed powers. On his own volition, and without the ad- Under such a proposal all labor laws could —and perhaps would—hbe suspended. All safeeuards of constitutional freedom would be endangered. The right of free speech, free press, and free assemblage, and even trial by jury Indeed, the objective might be jeopardized. of totalitarianism — dictator government — viee of the Attorney-General, Herbert B. Maw suspended operation of Utah’s traffic laws in at least one instance. And he has flouted Utah’s nepotism act. Contrary to law, he employed his cousin in the executive depart- would be just around the corner; the next step. The proposed grant of power is too great soft-headed enough to assume leney would exercise a grant for any man on earth to possess. There is no substitute in the American system for an independent legislature, and an independent Judiciarv. Eneroach upon their functions. and ment. With respect for those examples law, is there before us of Maw’s anyone in Utah that His Excelof new powers wisely, or even with moderation? The 1mmediate problem in this State is the recovery of powers from the Governor — not further grants to him. |