Show KANE COUNTY STANDARD 1 1030 1920 official Nelys paper of kane county utah ulah PUBLISHED Imi USHEl THURSDAY AT KANAB UTAH subscription per year foreign per year N HARVEY LARSEN editor and publisher A first class publication entered in the nt at kanah utah litah as aa se second I 1 ond class clasa mall mail matter under the act ot of congress of march 3 1879 publication ot of notice of meetings where admission Is charged or a collection taken will bo be charged tor for at our regular advertising rates all communications and items tor for publication must be signed by the writer riter whose name need not appear in print write on one side 0 of t the he paper only use usa no abbreviations all communications subject to t ance na as the judgment of the publishers may determine our editorial Edit oril this week will be found on the front page SERVICE SL radios refrigerators motors I 1 repairs for all appliances bloke blake electric co ath got something to sell something you nead try a Vlassi fiedl safe cd premium frami am oil coo co konol kann utaji FIRST GRADE GAS SECOND ORADE GRADE 20 DIESEL FUEL oren OPEN ALL TRAVELERS LODGE AR R N HOW HAPPY HE WOULD BE IP IF HE COULD BUY ALL THE SUGAR HE WANTIA WANTED ad FOR HIS FAMILY BUT CANT BECAUSE ITS RATIONED jut HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR PRINTING NEEDS THAT THEY TOO MAY BE RATIONED in twi tho r nl nr B ear I 1 aua aft WE SUGGEST YOU CHECK YOUR STOCK OF letterheads ENVELOPES statements STATEMENT S INVOICES BUSINESS CARDS IN SHORT ANYTHING A FIRST GLASS CLASS PRIN PRINTING T ING establishment IS CAPABLE OF DOING AND THEN give Us us your ana order K ader ASYET AS YET HAVE NOT ADVANCED FURTHER BUT WHO CAN TELL WHEN kane county standard PRINTERS publishers ir aw w if k r A proposal F ra pos al to defer f er the chain store tax referendum 0 in the interest of a un united ted war effort this thi s letter is published for the information of the public and especially the qualified utah voters who signed petitions referring the proposed special tax on chain stores to a vote of the people at the general election nov 3 1942 february 14 1942 mr A D stewart president UTAH RETAIL GROCERS association INC salt lake city utah dear mr stewart the retail chain stores of utah have authorized me to place before ft 1 1 your association a proposal for cooperation in a joint action in connection with the referendum on senate bill 44 the chain store tax under existing utah law this issue will be voted upon by the people at the general election on november 3rd ard next we assume that your association as the publicly acknowledged sponsor of S B 44 will undertake a campaign to persuade the public to vote for your bill and since S B 44 is is aimed solely at chain stores and would be a sentence of slow death for chain stores our members haye have no alternative but to defend themselves to the best of their ability before the bar of public opinion in arranging for the passage of S B 44 you undoubtedly believed that it was of great importance to the competitive interests of your members we may also assume that the qualified utah voters who signed referendum petitions ions did so in the belief that a complete airing 1 of the facts culminating with a vote by the people of utah would be in in the public interest we fully acknowledge that our members have a life and death interest in the decision of the voters however w we cannot help but believe that all of these interests in this issue have become less important since december 7 1941 there is only one issue now confronting us as americans today the necessity of conducting an all out defense of our nation in its hour of greatest jeopardy at a time when american soil is under invasion and american lives are being sacrificed in its defense we believe hawe as we are confident that 1 you do that in a period of such grive grave national peril we should submerge our internal differences and meet the emergency e m that faces us the present war is total war it is a conflict in which h all of us have a place and which demands of each of us the utmost in time money and energy it is a struggle in which it would be criminal to do less than our best both independent and chain retailers have an important task in this war we are depended upon to assure th the steady flow of available supplies so that production may proceed unhampered and civilian morale be maintained at a high level out our contribution is distribution we are in the army of supply for these reasons we propose that your utah retail grocers association unite with us in a petition to honorable herbert B maw governor I 1 of utah requesting that deplace he place before the utah legislature if a special session meets prior to august 1942 a recommendation that the he legis legi lature act aci to suspend end the vote upon S B 44 until a general election following the cessation of hostilities 44 counsel assure us that this is entirely feasible and that the rights of your association those of the public and of ourselves will be in no way anju injured red by the postponement acting upon the assumption that your membership would prefer as ana W ours does to ta be free during the time of trial ahead to to devote full attention to the war effort we are submitting for your consideration an opinion covering the question of the legislatures constitutional authority to order the postponement together with a suggested measure to accomplish this objective C A copy of this letter with attachments is being forwarded to governor maw for his information and because this proposal has been substantially 1 l ly inspired by his many splendid statements regarding the tit necessity for complete undivided effort in marshalling all of facilities for the job of winning the war this letter is being published as a paid advertisement so that the f 5 utah citizens in every county of the state who signed referendum petitions on S B 44 may also be informed of our proposal A li we sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation we hope ian that our joint petition will result in favorable legislative action and that it will be possible to arrange for further wholehearted coo cooperation perdon 4 between us in any and all ways by which we can and unselfishly C carry out our responsibilities and duties to utah and the nation yours very truly Sign edH T towler fowler president gi k UTAH CHAIN STORES association INC A ADAM HAT STORES NATIONAL SHIRT SHOPS inc BAKERS SHOE COMPANY 7 1 J NEWBERRY COMPANY CHANDLER SHOE COMPANY OWL DRUG COMPANY IV T GRANT COMPANY J C PENNEY CO I 1 x S H KRESS COMPANY SEARS ROEBUCK CO LERNER SHOPS OF UTAH inc SAFEWAY AY STORES itle inc THOM acan SHOE CO SPROUSE REITZ CO inc montgomery WARD CO F TV WOOLWORTH CO NATIONAL DOLLAR STORES DRUG CO WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY CO X T k |