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Show FIRST, Friday, July 28, 1961 SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD Page 2 tke individual, under GoJ', I awr, with certain unalienable rights. South Sait Lake Entered ai 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly on Friday. Payable in Advance By Mall Subscription Bates Anywhere in Utah, 1 year, $3 - Elsewhere in UJ5A., $3.50 Single Copy, 10 cents Published Weekly at 2185 South 9th East Publisher-Edit- or IN 6-2- 333 J. Dohn Lewis --- ---- - No. 30 Vol. 24 Editorial "Include Me Out Sam Goldwyn Last Tuesday night at 8 p.m. 150 citizens met in the South Salt Lake City Hall auditorium to discuss the proposed sidewalk curb, and gutter district. Had the same percentage of people attended a similar meeting in Salt Lake City the count would have been in the vicinity of 2,000. The atmosphere of the meeting was cordial and informal. The city council presided to hear the protests of the citizens who had reasons to oppose the improvements. In almost every instance there were strong feelings eminating from those citizens who did not want to be taxed for these improvements. However, respect for one another and respect from the council for the petitioners was on the highest plane.. All who wished to speak were heard. Many points were clarified, such as there would be no increase in the cost for a property owner if trees had to be removed from his property . Here choice was manifest. Tho it did not go to the degree that each property owner could or could not have the improvements on his property, it was constructof the ed so that if street on a opposed given people the plan then the improvements would not be made. Some of the commissioners felt that it should have been of the total number of property owners in the entire district opposing the plan in order two-thir- ds two-thir- ds to kill it. This position we are against. We hold to the purist point of view. If a property owner does not wish the improvements he need not have them. Agreed that this might create problems. We feel that the idea of total freedom is more consistant with morality than is the convenience of improvements on a block which might force one or more property owners to pay for something on their property they do not wish to pay for. True, a block that might be improved on a hit or miss basis would be quite a sight and would give problems of drainage that might not be solvable, it is something to think about; it is much more important that no man be forced to do anything against his will when his not doing it will not injure another man. We brook no argument that there is a public interest involved. There are only individual interests. If Adams Street and 27th South fall into the category of streets not to be improved, this is the wish of the people who do not wish their own property improved. The fact is that the citizens on Adams Street or 27th South who wish their property improved have not been denied that wish by the people who voted against the improvement. This denial came from the regulations imposed by the city council. It was the council who dedecided that the cision would determine what areas would be improved. citizens of Congratulations, South Salt Lake. Last Tuesday night you had a partial taste of freedom. . two-thir- ds Remora What is the best area in which to concentrate to Improve man's well being, to increase food, clothing and shelter? Let us look for the answer for just you, for all Utahns, for all , Americans, for all people. actions are best Ideas, plans, understood if presented in their simplest forms then transferred to more complex situations. A lone man would have an im possible task if he attempted to satisfy his simplest needs without any help from even one other man. His complete day would be taken up scratching out a minimum existence. He would have to accept the most primitive shelter that nature offered. He would have to accept for clothing whatever he came upon while seeking food. Man depends upon the surplus energy of other men to satisfy his most basic needs. The advent to tools allowed man to develop surplus energy. Tools increased each mans ability to produce. Tools can do the work of many men. (Then perhaps tools should be paid a wage) In a simple community of say 100 human beings the more humans working to produce , food, clothing and shelter the greater is the prospect that each man will have more food, more clothing, and a better shelter. The greater use of tools in this simple community, the greater the benefit for each man, because of the surplus production. Man will start to specialize and what he trades of his surplus an(not needed by himself) for other mans surplus becomes our first mans profit. (So, it is apparent that contrary to Marx, profit is NOT an unpaid wage.) Assuming that our small community solves most of its problems of food, clothing and shelter man will, by nature, seek to do the least amount of work to produce the greatest result. One man will see that his neighbor produces more and better potatoes than he does on the same land right next door. The less fortunate man might seek advice from the better potato grower. Thus grows a dependency upon leadership. But leadership is sought from the man who is the better producer. Another man will discover or invent a tool which enables him to work only half a day to not only produce everything he needs, but in this half day, he produces enough to exchange his surpluses for other items that his neighbors produce. Other men might want to rent his tools. They will produce in half a day then the same amount as the tool owner. They will pay the tool owner a part of the production for the use of the tools. Now the tool owner may invent other tools in his free time. Soon he may become a tool producer. Other men will seek his advice and ask him to suggest or lead them in answering their own problems. A desire for leadership will develop. Each man wants to do as little work as possible to satisfy his needs. So let us assume that we take one man out of production to lead the other men. Should we take the man who can grow potatoes the best, How about the invenfbr of tools? Remember in our community of 100 if we take one man out of production to lead, then the remaining 99 must produce enough for themselves and the non-produce- r.- Should we take both the best potato grower and the best tool inventor out of production to lead? What happens to our little economy? Ninety-eigmen must produce for 100 and the best men are no longer producing. The best place to look, the best area of concentration to mans well being then isimprove to improve production. Is this done by taking men out of production? Is this done by taking the best men out of production? Where would you want to see the best producers, in production or in government? Which area will improve your own lot to the greatest degree? ht At Gov. Shell Game Taxpayer is Hick JEFFERSON, Ohio, Gazette: The politicians love to talk about economy in government, but take a look at some evidence of 'economy uncovered by the House Armed Services Investigation subcommittee . . . The Navy paid $109,012 for parts that cost the supplier $20,820. Of course, the government recovered 52 per cent of the profit in taxes, but the rs are still the loser. tax-paye- In another instance the Air Force purchased 44,352 armatures from an Ohio company for $32.28 each. The Ohio firm bought them from another company for $16.69 each If some of this waste were eliminated the Frontier could really put on a firm front. ... Gov. I.O.U. is 4 Grand Per Voter From Farm Journal: The U. S. Government has lived within its income just six times in the last 30 years! It faces another deficit in 1962 of perhaps $6 billion. It owes $290 billion, which is more than $1,600 for every man, woman and child in the country. More than that, its future obligations, already voted by Congress, comes to $750 billion. That means every person in the U. S. has been mortgaged nearly $4,100 worth before any of the new current legislation is passed. . . All this can mean only that your dollars will buy less and your taxes will go on up. Sm'S INSTITUTE OF BEAUTY CULTURE ONLY SCHOOL WITH HYDRAULIC CHAiRS NEW Street Location Just East of KUONG JOU CAFE You'll bo amaied at tho modorn equipment, boautiful furnishings of Carol's, Utah's most modorn Beauty Institute . . . air conditioned dryers, cool and quiet, hydraulic chairs, stereo music. Meet famed instructors Anna Low Allred and Elaine Caldwell and their assistants SCHOOL SPECIALS Shampoo and Set $1.00 by Graduate $1.25 B Div. Scholarships Available for the Fall Class. 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