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Show 2 THE EOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham Gty, Utah ' Thursday, July 23, 1964 never cease to wonder ot thi miracles that come out of Washington. Now Congress has passed a bill and it was signed into law by the War Orphans Education Assistance act. This change would extend the benefits to children between the ages of 18 and 23 of permanently and totally disabled" veterans whose disability was attributable to warn time service during the war. I tried to figure this out. Now if the veteran was 18 years old when the Spanish-America- n war started in 1898, he would have been 66 when his son or daughter was born in 1946. And that is pretty good for a man who has been "permanently and totally disabled" for 65 years or so. It hardly seems possible but if me anyone qualifies, please let I Spanish-Atnerica- know. The Washington ion made a administratbig issue out of giving the people a reduction in income taxes during this election year. Then, last month, a warning was issued that the withholding reduction given at the time of passage was probably too large and that a sizeable payment would be due for the year. But that will be next April. Now comes word that this same administration is driving for legislation to raise Social Security benefits, as is customary every election year. READERS WRITE Readers Answer Letter Although practically no licity has been given to the fact, the bill would raise taxes on every employer and all workers covered. Thats nearly everyone. The additional tax will amount to $31.20 annually, paid by both employer and employee, for 1965, with additional increase in 1965, in 1968 and 1971. Of Complaining Neighbor Editor After reading a letter pub. llshed in the Journal: July 16, 1964, I felt a need to voice my opinion. First, we as a farming com. munity have no ordinance prohibiting raising of any livestock as long as they are free from disease. We have the right to have barnyards, pig pens, corrals, chicken coops, etc. It's hard to understand a per-sowho writes such a letter, just to get what he wants, does not care about those concerned, and does not even go as far as to consult his neighbor, (which is quite a few pigs away) to try to make some kind of arrangement. He would rather try and degrade this person by writ. Ing and exaggerate things that are not true and then doesnt have enough courage to sign his name. I feel It Is the farmers responsibility In this commun. ity to voice their opinions be. cause every farmer has a barn, yard and every barnyard has a smell. If we are the type of people who expect to smell roses and s violets In the country, then we have been misinformed. Country air is fresh and as far as Im concerned, barn, yards, hay fields and grain fields are what make the coun. try what It Is. I have a home that Is not too far from the church house, and I am sure that the pig farm has not decreased the value of my property. By the way, the church house is about two or three miles away from the clos. est corner of the farm of you. Under previous law, the rate already slated to raise in those years but the bill approved by the House Ways and Means committee also jump the taxable earnings base from the present $4,800 to $5,400, effective next Jan. . The House committee did omit Medicare in recommending the new benefits but this is on the White House "must list" and Senate Majority Whip Hubert H. Humphreys made a flat prediction that Congress will pass Medicare before adjournment. He also failed to mention the additional taxes that would be needed by the Social Security administration. Strategy appears to be to have the Senate tack on Medicare to the Social Security bill after House passage, to circumvent the House Ways and Means committee. ' Proponents hopes to ram through the Senate bill including Medicare, on the House floor. And if this comes in the closing hours or days before adjournment, when everyone is anxious to get home to hit the campaign trail, don't bet it wont happen. is n 1 per-hap- know-wh- Make Your Move, Mister . . . I MAIN STREET, U.S.A. fly BERT MILLS Distributed by National Editorial Association me too'1 have been decrying candidates for decades will be shushed for some time to come. Whatever his faults, Barry offer a contrast. will Goldwater outcome was and the principles The theory that there are not decided chiefly on a popularenough conservatives to elect ity basis. The Republicans lost five of a President should be put to a those seven elections, starting fair test. with Alf Landon in 1936 and end. PRINCIPLE, NOT popularity, ing with Richard Nixon in 1960. The only exceptions were the may decide an election for the In many a year. A Dwight Elsenhower victories in first time lot ot Democrats will have to 19S2 and 1956. swallow hard to vote for John, IN THOSE INSTANCES, the son. Many Republicans will be nation embraced a non.politic. close to the choking point when Ian a national hero who could they pull the Goldwater lever. Independent voters, who de. just as well have been elected as a Democrat. Ike himself had ter mine the outcome of national trouble deciding which nomina- elections, have had It easy in recent elections. The contrast tion he should seek. Contrast will not be lacking between candidates has not been this November. An avowed con. sharp, so they could Indulge servatlve will oppose a dedlca-te- d their prejudices, or sit out the liberal. Indeed, the clearer election on grounds It did not who won. image will be that of Senator make much difference You not do Goldwater. Barry IT DOES MAKE a difference need to know a great deal about who wins this year. There Is a he know where to politics stands. BOX ELDER JOURNAL President Lyndon B, Johnson, on the other hand, will be like A weakly newspaper iitibllihid In ISOS, publlhd wry Thuraday by the tightrope walker, now lean, tha Box US Edler South Ftrat Weat. Brlfham City. the other then this way. way, ing Claae Second aa and entered He will be too liberal for some Utah, Matter at the poet office In Brlfham City, Utah, under the act of others. straight Presidential elections have lacked contrast in the sense that the nominees did not differ greatly in their Seven Nawa-Jouma- l, March 18. 1870. Chaa. W. Claybaufh. PubUaher rate 13.50 per year, SubScriptlon payable In advance! in connection with the Box Oder Newa (pub-ltaha- d Se.00 per yeart Tueadaya) 53.00 for 0 montha) elnfla copy, 10 centa. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. Utah State Preaa Aaeoclatlon, National Editorial Aaeoclatlon and United Preaa International. Adver-tlaln- f as President the past eight months In any indication, Johnson will continue to try to be all things to all men, at once the cham-plo- n of both Henry Ford III and Walter Reuther, natural en. emles though they may be. If Johnson gets away with it, It will be no contest. If he can woo and win Northern liberals and Southern and Western con. servatlvea at the same time, Goldwater will take the bad licking the pollsters foresee. Then the Republicans who BepreeentaUve: Utah State Preaa Aaeoclatlon. Salt Lake City, Utah. ' national; editorial ggj lAc6"4N CITIZEN SIBLEY If we are good missionaries, then perhaps we should read the 13 Articles of Faith again. We believe In being honest, chaste, benevolent, virtuous and In doing good to all men. Certainly, that letter was not this, because the person was not honest and he certainly was not good to this pig farmer he did not even make it aware to him that it was a problem. He tried to make the letter sound as though this person was as dirty as he claimed the pigs were. This person and his family are one of the cleanest, nicest families I know. I am sure if they had been aware of the problem, they would correct it as much as possible. But we cant expect him to sell his ranch and move because somebody likes roses, now can ' NAT0NAIL contrast in philos. ophles. It is apparent to even the most disinterested person. Perhaps the time has arrived when it is no longer possible for a thinking person to be In. dependent. This looks like a milestone year, one the historians will point to when they look back on this Republic In its 188th year. It is an oversimplification to speak of turning right or keeping left but that is the decision this nation will make In November. If Senator Goldwater Is as badly as most people expect, it will be a long time before the Republican party ever yields Its nomination to a conservative again. For there Is no substitute for victory. - ON THE OTHER HAND, should Goldwater win or even run a close race, American politics will undergo a drastic change. It may become the rule, rather than the exception, for the Republican standard bearer to be a conservative. Contrast between candidates may become normal. Polltlcalns love to talk about issues. In the recent past most such talk has been idle chatter, at least In Preslden. tlal elections. Not so in 1964. This year there Is a real Issue, not a phony one. There Is a genuine contrast between the can. dldates. Barry Goldwater has been talking for months about a choice, not an echo. His words are apt. Voters have an unusual opportunity this year. It should be Interesting and Important to the nation's future. ...Says the diapered gunman, Chad Holmgren, an-ho- B Room 407, Federal build-In- g, Salt Lake City 1, Utah. Gardiner C. Means Is an old soldier In the war against so. called industrial concentration. For some thirty years he has been telling the same story the decline in competition as a dependable regulator of our economic system. In a recent presentation before a Congressional Com. mittee he starts, characterlst. lcally, with a description of the American economy of a century ago. It was an economy of fam-il- y farms prises. and small enter- HE SUMS UP WITH THE mon parlance, is less Intense In the jet age than It was In the horse.and-buggdays. y BUT A MORE REALISTIC reflection on the commonly known historical facts should convince us that the very re. verse Is true. Competition Is a matter of having a wide var. lety of choices open to the cus. tomer choices as to what he will buy and who he will buy it from. Our grandfathers and had far few. er choices in that respect than s we do now. In the essentially localized markets of a century ago there RE-ma- that, In that period: National economic policy could were as a practical matter, be decided on the basis of a few choices available in most body of economic theory which purchases. If a farmer needed we? that all production was a plow, he had it made in the And as far as the farm Is assumed on under conditions of local blacksmith shop. He could carried concerned, there has been a lot The not spare the time, and had no of planning and work gone into classical competition... remainder of his statement is means of transportation, totra. to it smell and avoid designing devoted to arguing on the basis vel around comparing products dust. If you want to see a well, of statistics on the size and and prices. The housewife had unit, you designed disposal number of business firms one local general store in which should visit this farm and I no longer she could make her purchases that this assumption am sure when it is completed she could not go from shopping applies. it will be one of the nicest ranch, Is meant by clas. center to shopping center before what Just es in this community. As far not clear. making her decision. as the smell and dust. I would steal competition Is theoreSome definitions set up to like trade you my home, tical norms which never have THE SAME technological de. my taxes, my city ordinances, never could apply, velopments that led to mass profor your purified fresh country applied, and in practice. But the lm. duction in large firms enor. air. plication Is that competition, as mously expanded the choices I only hope that the person available to consumers. Once who wrote that article has the the word Is understood in com coal producers competed only decency to realize that they with each other; now they comare In the country, and leave pete with petroleum, natural gas, water power and nuclear Editor: energy. Railroads have to compete with truckers and airlines. At a recent conference held Frozen foods compete with In Oakland, Calif, a group of fresh and canned foods, plastics elders from the Brigham City compete with lumber and television competes area met. We all expressed metals, (Continued from page one) how much the town has changed, with movies. The reader can and how we all appreciate the fill In many other examples whelming Republican victory the consideration of the News from the experience of his own in November. Responsible citizens, bo tii Republican and and Journal staff In sending the lifetime. Democratic, know instinctively paper to each of us. We do THE QUESTION OF whether that we have too much spending, appreciate your consideration competition Is more, or less. too much debt, too much vac. and thoughtfulness. It used to be Is a Enclosed is a picture of the Intense than illation In foreign policy, not more matter of than academic elders meeting at the traveling Interest. The enough disclosure in our mil In our stan. rfse confer elders and supervising ltary operations, too much cenof living during earlier dard tralization In Washington, too ence that was being held. It indicates that competimuch by.passlng of the rights was Indeed an opportunity to periods was then a reliable econ. tion and responsibilities of state renew old acquaintances, and regulator and protector of share missionary experiences. omlc and local government. consumer. It follows that It We wish to again express our the They will not be fooled by of doing an even is capable for the current political year Income tax re. thankfulness under modern condl. better ductions which merely Increase news happenings of Brigham tlons ofjob wider choice. the national debt. Nor will they City. The Decline and Fall of be lulled Into danger by such po. Is a dramatic Competition litlcal year gimmicks as an Sincerely, as Means tells Professor story antipoverty program which will Elder Preston Checketts it. But it is myth, not history. cost about $900 million the first 2326 California St. Apt. No. 13 year alone to perform services Mountain View, California Lloyd States Guess I Showed Him Examinations are now being held for the position of clerk at the Brigham City Post office It was announced Tuesday by Sen. Frank E. Moss Examinations for the $2.33 are being held job continuously and are limited to Brigham City residents. Moss said applications can be made by obtaining applies, tlon card Form 5000-Afrom any Post Office and mailing It to the executive secretary, Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners, Post Office Depart-men- t, By George Hagedorn Readers Write: Postal Clerk Job Now Open rje TTILOOEi Competition Then and Now ' election year politics for cut the tax and make you you. They feel it's a much bigger reduction than it actually was. Then they turn around and add a brand new tax on, butTiot until after election. hope we break even but l'ir not r sure we will. This is distinct IF HIS PERFORMANCE can do nothing for you, is plain sacrilege. These people have done nothing to purposely harm you In any way. I hope you have some conscience about what you are trying to do to them. Had you sold them the land they Inquired about, the pig farm would have been close to well enough alone, or move to their own home. As It turned the city where there is only out, years later, its across smoke and noisey highways, from your gate. Now is that fate honking horns, and meowing of isnt It? And Im sure It cats to put up with. Just temporarily slipped his I am proud to stand by this mind to ask your humble wel. pig rancher and anybody else come. If you think your kind, sweet who tries to stand on their own two feet. I certainly know that letter of encouragement is gothey cant be anthing but suc- ing to inspire this pig farmer cessful. I am proud to sign my to shoot all his pigs In the name. head, Fm sure you have miss DeVerle Wells figured again. And 1 might add, this particular pig farm is run In the most sanitary conditions Editor: I would like to say to the and Im sure if pigs could talk author of last weeks anony. they might return your compll. mous letter on pig farms (and ments. , Fm sure this man is conyoure not as anonymous as you think) you certainly make one cerned about your welfare and suspect your grade of Intel, when he makes his million, Fll him to send you a ligency by apparently thinking remind farm people can make a living welner. For the life of me, Pve been by sitting around sniffing dais, les. trying to figure why you think And to think that an Intel, the church should step In and ligent person would have to go control Its members like a to such lengths as to contact communistic government. If you really want ideal livall those officials to find out farmers have a right to raise ing conditions, the only place Is the Celestial kingdom and to pigs, Fm amazed. You have tried in your small get there we must love our way to degrade county officials neighbors, perhaps even their to satisfy your own twisted pigs. Otherwise your solution Is point of view because they have so simple that Fm surprised you told you the man has a right to didnt think of it. MOVE. have pigs. , Faye Hansen Putting yourself on the level P.S. Most people somehow find with the man who was told the nerve to sign their names Your cause is Just, but we to what they write. son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Holmgren of Bear River City. Chad really isnt a gunslinger but he is aiming to enter Bear River Citys July 24th celebration baby contest on Friday. which are already being per- formed by 43 other federal agencies according to the tes. timony of the secretary of Health Education and Welfare. The Republican party will unify behind Senator Goldwater, because all Republicans have a common objective. That is the and of fiscal soundness, restoration to on is up mop home accidents safe spills Statistics indicate that many come un- splashes the minute they occur and responsible government 'which fully protects Americas der the heading of cut burns, followed by a quick once-ove- r and falls and a surprising with a sudsy mop to wash away vital Interests at home and number occur In the kitchen, grease. Congressman Lloyd said, reminds Jessie M. Eller, county WORK surfaces CLEAN home agent. To help cut down the home where food is prepared before Carpets and rugs retain their accident rate, aim as a homeyou start, and keep them clean maker for a d kitchen. while you work. Large bowls handsome appearance for many Get step stools and ladders with and glasses slide all too eas- years with regular, care which use of a carpet sweeper rubber-tippefeet, foam rub. ily on a surface that is left Includes ber or other mats that grip slippery. Never grab a dish, or vacuum cleaner and profesthe floor, keep work surfaces towel to wipe sudsy hands be. sional cleaning from time to free of grease, and keep the cause, when the dishes are time. floor mopped clean of slick dried later, the concentrated soap or detergent on the towel spots. A single accidental slide may may cause you to drop a plate As hands fumble around in the cause the cook to ricochet from or glass and cut your hands. water, they are likely to grab the stove and a burned elbow Keep a clean towel In a handy a dangerous sharp cutting edge. to the drlanboard and a pile of place for the sole purpose of Wash knives Individually. Allow glasses that contained broken crockery plus a couple drying hands; it Is both more of gashed hands. Safety In the sanitary and safer, Mrs. El. cold drinks to reach room tern, perature before washing. Dont kitchen starts at the bottom ler adds. hold a glass directly under make dishwashing down safer, on To the floor. Even a right water from the faucet If It is In knives the small grease spot may cause never put sharp a foot to slip. The easiest dlshpan or sink, hidden under too hot or too cold, the glass crack. way to keep a kitchen floor layer of suds and dishes. may Cuts, Burns, Falls Lead Number of Home Accidents non-ski- Court Binds d SIC Man Over y A Salt Lake City man afternoon wavled pre. Umlnary hearing In Brigham Wed-nesda- City court and was ordered over to First District court on a charge of failure to provide. Arraigned on the charge was Ray Lindsay, 24, of 234 South Third East, Salt Lake City, Lindsay was freed after post. bound Ing $1,000 property bond. 4 t MEET AT CONFERENCE - These elders from the Brigham City area recently met at an LDS conference in Oakland, Calif. They are from left to right: Elders Bruce Kendrick, Preston Checketts, Johnny Johnson, Robert Shelton and Gary Nay. |