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Show TIIE JOURNAL Page 4 MOSCOW, PLEASE TAKE NOTE Political Profiteering trying harder to profit by the present emergency than many government bureaus. No one is national A glaring example is the Department of the Interior Federal agency seeking to socialize the which is the primary water nation's power resources. Public employes of this Bureau are arguing for greater appropriations for uncalled for government power projects as essential to national defense." They disregard the need of conserving tax dollars in the interest of defense, in their desire to play billions politics as usual. The projects for which they ask would not be completed for years. In the meantime taxpayfuring free enterprise in the electric field could and would nish the power needed now and in the future for industrial tax-exem- pt ' demands. dictator could not do a better job of propagandizing for government monopolies than is being done by this powerful group of public officials and employes. Their program American would ultimately destroy much free, bureauenterprise and create more thousands of cratic jobs. They are seeking to profiteer on the taxpayer in a national crisis as much as would any manufacturer who set out to bleed consumers of every cent possible in the name of the war emergency. ' A tax-payi- ng tax-eati- ng Incontrovertible There is one economic lesson which our Twentieth Century experience has demonstrated conclusively that Amer- ica can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small' business. Every fact of our economic and industrial life proves that the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other ; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant. The American industrial machine is a unit, just like an automobile. It is made up of big parts and little parts, each N.W.ki.Q of which does its own particular job and all of which are intricately fitted together. You may think that it would be fun to sort them all out into neat piles according to size to please statisticians. You could even pass a law declaring The that all the parts must be the same size;' and the theorists, no doubt, would be delighted. But when you get through, JOURNAL. youn automobile wont run and neither will American in- A weekly newspaper published in the interests of the residents of dustry. Benjamin F. Fairless. IcWiijl Davis County, at Layton, Utah. SHALL WE AWAIT THE BLOW? Entered as second-clas- s matter at Act of under the Layton, Utah, March 8, 1879. The Communists always claim that theirs is a perfectly Published By legal party, like the Democrats and the Republicans, and that INLAND PRINTING CO. they have a constitutional right to carry on their activities. Phone: Kaysville 10 What that position actually means was well described recently by Judge Learned Hand of the Circuit Court of Appeals. He was speaking for a unaminous Court upholding the conviction of the 11 Communist leaders in New York last UTAUmemberTC'opTtheSTATE ASSOCIATION year. He said : They claim the constitutional privilege of goNATIONAL'EDITORIAL ing on indoctrinating their pupils, preparing increasing numASSOCIATION bers to pledge themselves to the crusaide, and awaiting the moment when we may be so far extended by foreign engagements, soiar divided in counsel, or so far in industrial or fi- Natl. Advertising Representative nancial straits, that the chance (of successful revolution) Newspaper Advertising Service. 222 No. Michigan Ave. seems worth trying. That position presupposes that the Chicago, 111. (First) Amendment assures them freedom for all preparatory steps and in the end the choice of the initiative, dependent upon that moment when they believe us, who must await Subscription: $1.00 Per Year Payable in Advance. the blow, to be worst prepared to receive it. In combination with Communism is not a political prty. It is a revolutionary The Weekly Reflex, $3.00 per year. movement owing total allegiance to a foreign government. Its sole aim is to destroy us. Albert W. Epperson Editor Manager Richard O. Anderson News Editor J. 1. Naughty Marietta was (a) President Truman's "baby- same" for Marfaret, (b) heroine of an opera by Victor Herbert, (e) Mary Tudor, for her burning of the Protestants. S. The roar of what animal has been heard by the most psoplst (a) the Republican elephant, (b) Gargantua, (e) Leo, so-call- Display Advertising Manager Ernest R. Little Classified Advertising Manager ANSWERS of am ptr by TlcUr Btrbui. 1. A) S. Li,dotthola LUn. Ibo maaftr. A fco hoavtnly A XXL 11. lly E-- W la tto woods (wtod(Rr. rmphB). IW.HFL mm A whole year 104 issues of the Reflex-Journ- al Is only $3.00 Court EO J. SQUILLANTE, Mount Vernon, N. Y says that hit learned if you are facing a fight, or even a dilemma will come out better nine times out. of 10 if you throw )n the mercy of the other fellow than if you at- r tempt to fight him. He illustrates it with the following story: One cold night in December he was caught a sleet storm about 20 miles from his home, when his car broke down on' the highway. To make matters worse, his wife and their little son were with him. Finally he. abandoned the car and got home. In a few days he was served with a summons to appear in night court to explain why he naa Left his car on the highway over night In When he arrived in the courtroom, three people, the judge, the state trooper ani tcaVe thi was the procedure in that court for the JUdg s gf courtroom while the defendant told his arresting officer. itit He started on the story, noting tfcatC-movable expression on the officers face. Howe otn knew he was guilty so hd couldnt plead any u &t cer relaxed a little. When the judge s ceeded to appoint himself as Mr. Squillante the judge the story far more sympathetically an Mr. Squillante could have done. , re-enter- v ed ths Lien, (d) Pluto. S. Tho cur in the eombln suggests (a) a leap In the dark, (b) fcss to Css bonnet, (e) a dog In the manger. 4. TTfcat E&!leal elty walls were built of jasper? (a) the heaved c 7, b) Jerusalem, (e) Jericho, (d) Bethlehem. , S. Dryads would bo found (a)'ta the sea, (b) on a desert, to) to Cm woedat (d) to the air. () V. Woolsey Trust tbo Mercy of the ea, The judge asked, What is your plea? Guilty, came the reply. mi you W the judge. said No, dont do that, what Nolo Contendere means? Does it mean, 1 dont wish to figbtj tfy j Thats right, said the judge. In place yourself at the mercy of the court. I plead Nolo Contendere. Case dismissed, said the judge, who standing, as are many officers when the tough if an offender seems to have no respec & for thel' . |