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Show BOX ELDER JOURNAL Brigham City. Utah Friday. May Just About AtuftlUna 19, 1950 weekly newspaper, published at Brigham City, Utah, successor to Smithfield Sentinel, established A In 1W8 William M. Long, Editor Charles Claybaugh, Business Manager Published every Friday and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circula tlons. Utah State Press Association. National Edi torial Association. Advertising Representative: National Advertising Service. " ; ' 1 1 Subscription rate in Box Elder County: $3 00 per year payable in advance; in combination with the Box Elder News, (published Wednesdays) $4 00 per year; $2.00 for 6 months; single copy 5 cents; Outside Box Elder County, $3 50 per year, com- ' $5.00 bination rate ....i.- -. " - One Way We Could Improve 'Our Roads consternation has been expressed recently over the plight of Utahs road system, described as the worst in the west and one of the worst in the nation. We have heard many stirring speeches On how our state government should take the , bumps out of our highways, and have read many stirring articles on how we must finance the job, but nary a word havewe heard ' about how to improve conditions for the crews who do the "pick and shovel work on the roads, , Not many years back the men who worked on the state highways received a pension retirement plan that guaranteed a reasonable monthly payment when they reached 65. it is pracAlas, under the present set-u- p tically worthless for before they can serve ,the necessary number of years or reach 65, government control passes from one party to n boot the other. They receive the where it hurts, go back to tenant farming, and the opposition party puts their men in for the price of voting the road jobs Much By Rob Crompton Grizzly John E, , Vanzl dropped into the office Monday to ask how much a small ad would cost in the paper In Lathrop, . Pennsylvania. Why, I don't know, but If you want to run an ad in the News or Journal WRITING YOUR POOR CONGRESSMAN By Charles A. Fisher Writing letters is good constructive use of leisure time, Grandma always said. Sot it was, until the age when the'pressure groups came and began insisting that we write our congressmen every whipstitch. All around us now commentators, columnists, educators, union leaders, et cetera are telling us to write your congressman and save democ-rac- set-trp,- " Well, Ill write the Lathrop for nothing. and paper, give them the details see if they will try to locate I told wife and I your relatives there, Friday night the InJohn. Intermountain the accepted to an invitation schools dian final public see open house, their It will be Interesting toloca-tethis year. activity emIf Johns kin folks can be Arriving first at the we building, ployees recreation delighted In Inspecting the of the many hobby classThe conversation recently took es there. ideal an spot what a turn to impressing was this area would make for a ski Particularly and water water coloring centhe resort, dude ranch, hunting colored stationery. etc. Come to find out, John left Lathrop, a small coal mining town, and his family, about 30 years ago to adhere to the sagacious advice, .Go West Young Man. Since that time he has been engaged In a variety of mining Utah activities In California, and Nevada, He has never ter, re-sui- ts the art - w0 es sir. That work," he said. Picture in partlcuOT tinued with look ing In the desm - wonderful! The up" shop the quality the finest. forff.?'' W of the JJ 66 y. , someone What a written his family ot received said, why for a hundred bucks was a (Mr. owni ... come here Lavinla C. StahL a letter from them. a week people could we have art hobby club) everything and enjoy -- No," he Insisted. I want to run it in the Lathrop paper. About a nickel a word. Whats it about? I questioned. Wall, its been about 30 years now since I left my family in Lathrop. I think I gotta sister there. Maybe two sisters. V i . Gone are the days when you used to take a couple evenings a year to write Cousin Hubert a letter about how your tulips grow, your new automobile, Aunt Sophias backaches and Johnnys trials with arithmetic. time for that small talk now. Youve to got dash from supper and write your congressman. Didnt you just hear, over the radio, commentator Pew Stenchell end his program saying Now brother citizens Ive let you in on the dirty business the soap trust is up to. Now, and I mean now, its your turn to act. Write your congressman and clean up the soap trust." So you dash out a letter dressing down your congressman oh the dirty soap trust. Then you remember those scurrilous remarks that congressman Humplebacker made about the shoe repairers in Luxembourg. You dash off a communique to him And at church Sunday the minister said we all ought to write letters to Congressthat Fight, man Bubbles telling him that our church is state road com- 100, categorically and emphatically against Under the present set-u- p mission jobs are political weapons, and are sin and for him to never vote for it in conused by the parties to garner votes. gress. a the reigns Usually when new party takes Today the grocer said that if you think the of government control from the hands of the price of corn meal mush is high its because opposition party, the political hatchet is of the power lobby of the mush people wielded adeptly and in all the decadence of usually called the mush slush fund in the To The editorial columns. And the only way to reAndrew Jacksons spoils system, Victor Belongs The Spoils, road crewmen of duce the price is to write the congressmen the wrong party are removed from their on the mush committee. jobs. So you write the congressmen on the mush The natural outcome of such a system is committee. And mind you, your words ' that their is lobsy road service while the new arent mushy. crews serye their internship, and about the So it goes and you write a half dozen letd time they become a functioning to congressmen, and youve added j ters , is new a governor elected, they organization are removed, we get new road crews who broad hint to each letter: P. S. Remem and the road service is lousy ber Bub, Im old enough to vote. voted right again. You remember tonights editorial in the ' ' And so goes it The road service under daily Beagle. The editor informed that this system suffers, not to mention the fact the union have a vicious pullers that a temptation is placed at the hands of letterparsnip t or make congresscampaign writing All they men vote "promising young politicians. $300 a month pensions for them, have to do is promise road jobs, and the men You nail this business by writing your conpromised, their families and friends vote for gressman not to read the letters he gets from him. , the because puller people parsnip they are The whole system is wrong, and it should boys. pressure he changed. If the state road commission were placed Long past midnight you are tirgd. You on a Civil Service basis, employees would are about to hit the hay when you rememnot be under the thumb of the parties. ber what Ed at the office said today. Well They could lean back and enjoy security of Ed just got back from a trip to Washington, knowing they would have a job as long as D. C.; and he got the inside on the flying they did their work right; they would vote saucers. Ed says' there is an insidious for the man they felt best fitted for a poli- clique of letter writers who are writing con tical position and not for a job; and they gressmen and telling them NOT to fead let would learn their jobs and stay with them ters protesting fegainst persons who write until they retired. letters describing saucers they saw. ' The roads would be much better. What should alert, patriotic Americans do about this insidious clique? Why of course , ..PITTSBURG (TEXAS) GAZETTE they must write letters: to tell Hon. I. Want-votasks: (Deni.) your congressman, not to read the If our State Department is as full of Com- cliques letters; to read the letters of the munists as Senator McCarthy would have us protestors of the persons writing not to pay attention to saucer seers; and not to read believe, why is Moscow so nasty about us? letters from people who saw saucers. MODESTO (CALIF.) TRIBUNE Finally you go to bed feeling that democ (Rep.) quips: The Potato Bug has been discovered and racy is saved at least for the night and you from whence it comes. Farmers should have dreams of enlightening your congress man so that he wont fall victim to the pres take note. Its home office is in Washington, D.C., and it migrates wherever there sure boys who write vicious letters. are many votes. It sneaks into potato fields, places a price tag on the spuds and departs, leaving behind a new sack and a permit to color the Irish tuber so that all other vegeYOAKUM (TEX.) HERALD-TIMEtables will be green with envy. (Dem.) asks: Would this country be better off without Local Government Taxes Drop big business? Without Ford, General MoLocal government property taxes in Utah tors, du Pont and others ? They are big bewere reduced, on an average, from $4.40 per cause of their ability and service or pro$100 of assessed value in the 1948-4- 9 fiscal ducts, and also because this country is big, 1 f year, to $4.35 for 1949-5according to fig-- . ures released today by Patrick Ilealy, Jr., Chairman of .the Utah State Tax Commis-- i KINGWOOD (WEST VIRGINIA) Lsiort. .The average per capita of these taxes PRESTON CO. JOURNAL (Rep.) states: $52.54 for the current fiscal year, based " A little Socialism only whets the appeon tin average per capita valuation of $1,- tite for more by weakening the patient 207.84. Utah is more fortunate than some other through robbing him of his initiative, pride . western states for instance, California has and Once the Socialist camel gets his nose unaverage tax of $5.37 per $100 valuation, and the average per capita in that state is der the tent he is immediately scrambling to - ' $66.61 on an average valuation of $1,240.29. get all the way inside the canvas, where he can run the show. No well-know- for waiting all this time for your new Chrysler. Now that our production lines r are rolling again, well soon be able to k - well-oile- show you the finest Chryslers in all ... so come in and our 25 years see us. Well give you a demonstra- - 75C v tion of beauty and performance that c will f you handsomely for waiting. , 1 e, PACKER MOTOR CO. 75 South Main Stree S PROTECT HAS YOUR CAR " We have 0, ... 1 self-relianc- e. .'"an RAMSEY (N.J.) JOURNAL (Rep.) says: Every citizen in this great land of ours should keep right on stressing the point that needless bureaus should be eliminated and the overlapping divisions of our Government must be merged." Keep on telling your Senators and Congressmen that this is your . v desiie. ' The deadline is near . . . June 1st . . . and we PETTUS (TEXAS) NEWS (Ind.) quips: The aim of those who would have something done about the tax situation is to have the people become more tax conscious. Unless they do, it occurs to us that in time they will become tax unconscious. i just installed new MANBEE ELECTRONIC WHEEL BALANCING equipj to give you the of very best in balancing, to protect and lengthen the life yor MANBEE is the most sensitive balancing equipment obtainable, either for wheels, wheels hubs complete. Come In d 1,1 us demonstrate th. MANBEE EUCH IC system. ,d urge you to bring your car in today lor annual state inspection. . For your convenience . " i, BEEN INSPECTED? YOUR TIRES! . 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