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Show Page Friday, October SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD 2 PIRST.tL individual, under Go I aws, with certain unalienable rights. Entered as 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 Mail year, $3 Elsewhere in U.SA., $3.50 Single Copy, 10 cents Subscription Rates Anywhere in Utah, neutrals and up sides, stop trying to buy the give aid and support only to those nations which have .shown they are openly on our side. Up to now, a lot of our aid far too much has been going to nations friendly to Russia and not to us. All this winds up to the necessity of strengthening our ties with our allies in NATO; helping to build up the Organization of American States, and giving more aid and support to those countries allied with the U.S. in SEATO. Before we start handing our more hundreds of millions lets get on the right track and stop trying to buy something that isnt there. so-call- A Lesson 1 Published Weekly at 2185 South 9th East As a teacher in the public schools, I find that the socialist-comidea of taking from each according to his munist IN 33 No. 40 Vol 21 Editorial New World Look? With Congress now adjourned, with the danger of war continuing to be the countrys Number One worry, with a recession now occupying less of our time and with most industrial reports reflecting a growing economic prosperity at home, it is hoped that more concentrated effort will be put on world affairs by the administration in an attempt to clean up the many troubled spots. Its a difficult job to write of over-a- world affairs, except from day to day, as the picture changes rapidly. The German situation is still in the forefront, of course. The future of the United Nations is at stake. Southeast Asia is still seething. The Algerian troubles remain in the picture. The Congo is far from settled. And then in Syria, which will wind up who came the blow-ufrom knows where. The engineer of Syrias break-awa- y Nassar has vowed to give the people a democratic and socialist life, whatever that may mean. But from reading between the lines during the final days of Congress it would appear that conservatism is gaining a little and that radical attitudes are losing a little. If prosperity at home holds, its likely that more and more conservatism may be in order. The trend toward this greater conservatism was evidenced in tax reforms, which got nowhere; the death of school aid, on a national basis; the cut in the amount of foreign aid asked for by the President; the delay in medical care for the aged; and the failure to raise postal rates. Toward the end Congress seemed to get higher in the conservative saddle which may be a harbinger of that radical ideas and free spending things to come sprees may have tougher going in the next session ll p of Congress. From the news we get, it seems probable, too, that U.S. world policy is in for a change, with a hardening of attitudes toward those who have shown, in varied ways, that they are not our friends. Theres going to be more world aid more spending of American taxpayers dollars, whether we like it or not. The issue seems now to be will we be tougher in the distribution of this aid, especially to those nations that call themselves neutral but which, at Belgrade and since, have clearly shown they are neutral for Russia. There are rumors that these neutrals are going to get less attention. Its about time we come to our senses and spend our money, if we must spend it, in nations that have proved their friendship to us. Here are a few facts that should impress those who have the say as to where our tax money is to be poured out: Yugoslavia has been handed some $2 billion. India has been given a like amount. Egypt and Indonesia, between them, have split another $800 million. Thats nearly $5 billion. Other neutrals 20 of them have drained us of another billion or so in U.S. dollars. And yet, when the Soviet resumed nuclear testing, there wasnt a peep from these neutrals in condemnation. In other words the time is now when we choose ability, and giving to each according to his need is now generally accepted without question by most of our pupils. In an effort to explain the fallacy in this theory, I sometimes try this approach with my pupils: When one of the brighter or harder-workinpupils makes a grade of 95 on a test, I suggest that I take away 20 points and give them to a student who has made only 55 points on his test. Thus each would contribute according to his ability and since both would have a passing mark each would receive according to his need. After I have juggled the grades of all the other pupils in this fashion, the result is usually a common ownership grade of between 75 and 80 the minimum needed for passing, or for survival. Then I speculate with the pupils as to the probable results if I actually used the socialistic theory for grading papers. First, the highly productive and they are always pupils a minority in school as well as in life would soon lose all incentive for producing. Why strive to make a high grade if part of it is taken from you by authority and given to someone else? Second, the less productive pupils a majority in school as elsewhere would, for a of the necesrelieved time, be sity to study or to produce. g Kennecott Continues Scholarship Program At Westminster Howard J. Eischeid, regis- trar at Westminster College, has announced that the Kennecott Copper Corporation will be continuing for another year the program of scholarships which also entails direct benefit to the Colorado River Development P r o g r am through the Utah Water and Power Board. Each of the three scholarships include a $240 grant to the student to be applied to tuition. Sustaining part-timwork with the Water and Power Board also is included. The recipients are: Max Waddoups, Jr., a senior, son ed In Socialism This socialist-communi- sys- st tem would continue until the high producers had sunk or had been driven down to the level of the low producers. At that point, in order for anyone to survive; the authority would have no alternative but to begin a system of compulsory labor and punishments against even the low producers. They, of course, would then complain bitterly, but without understanding. Finally 1 return the discussion to the ideas of freedom and enterprise the market economy where each person has freedom of choice and is responsible for his own decisions and welfare. Gratifyingly enough, most of my pupils then understand what I mean when I explain that socialism even in a will eventually democracy result in a living-deatfor all except the authorities and a few of their favorite lackeys. h 6, 1961 Savings Bonds Plan Endorsed Governor George D. Clyde, Honorary State Chairman of the Utah Savings Bonds Committee, has joined with' other governors across the nation in asking all companies, large and small, to make the Payroll Savings Plan for purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds available to their employees. Companies already having the plan are urged to renew their efforts to enroll more of their employees in the program. A letter from Governor Clyde along with a special Payroll Savings brochure, has been sent to some 16,000 such companies in Utah. Some 500 organizations in this state are presently opera- ting this program for the benefit of their employees. Practically all the larger employers including the State of Utah, as well as many smaller groups, are participto Governor ate, according Clyde. Bonds officials Savings out that the pointed Payroll is Savings program particularly suited to the needs of many local groups which do not rehave company-sponsoretirement programs for their employees. It gives the employee an opportunity to build up savings on the installment plan to augment Social Security. He may accumulate Series E bonds and later exchange them for current-in-com10 year Series H bonds, and defer reporting the interest for Federal income tax for the life of the H bonds a possible deferment of up to 27 years. d e (A letter from Thomas J. Shelly, teacher of Economics and History, Yonkers High School, Yonkers 2, New York, January 20, 1951.) Can You Sell Advertising ? or Are You Willing to Try ? The South Salt Lake Herald Needs a Progressive Man or Woman to call on South Salt Lake and Sugar House Business establishments, soliciting Display Advertising on a commission basis No phone calls please e Come in to the Herald Office at of Mr. and Mrs. Max Wad- doups, Sr., Murray; Dieter Urban, a sophomore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Urban, Salt Lake City; and Gary Friehauf, sophomore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Friehauf of Brush, Colo. E-bo- 2185 South 9th East for an interview Ask for Fred Bittner or LaMar Busath . |