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Show The Enterprise Review , December , 1976 Paye 15b by Chuck Akerlow an area of questionable worth. Only then will we begin to obtain a better national definition of what the power of government really is. Ictcr Cooke, in a recent interview with this newspaper, the Democratic victory at the nations capitoi observed that would not really spell the end of business. Cooke, Director of Government Affairs for the Salt Lake Chamber, noted that if business will clean up its own act and regulate itself there would be less need for governmental interference. Perhaps. But then governmental interference is not always motivated by the fact that industry has failed to regulate itself. Sometimes governmental interference is motivated by the need of those in power to expand their is It this concern which power. prompts this writer to urge that the business community actively oppose those areas in which governmental interference through legislation or regulatory agencies restricts free enterprise and serves no purpose in protecting the welfare of employees or the consuming public. There are obviously many stories and examples of government interference where no apparent need for governmental intrusions was needed, similarly, there are countless examples of the uniform application of a rule nationwide which cannot and does not unformily impact on each situation. Senator Garn loves to tell the story about the miner in Southeastern Utah who ran a one-ma- n mine. other OSHA two-way Among things requires that there be communications from the mine to the mine office. This particular miner was shut down because he did not have y communication. His complaint was that when he is in the mine there was no one outside to talk to and when he is outside there is no one inside to talk to. Yet OSHA closed In Utah, the development of income producing properties appears stronger than ever. In these pages during the last two weeks several new projects were announced. For The is example: Boyer Company beginning its Trolley Corners project on 700 Hast across from Trolley Square. Two Salt Lake businessmen announced their plans for an unusual business a nursery mall. The idea here is to construct an enclosed 40,000 square-foo- t mall which would have as tenants people in the floral, swimming pool, gift, topsoil, sod and nursery business. It also noted that Engh Floral intends to build a $2 million shopping center at its present site on 3900 South. Western Woodlands continues to announce shopping centers in which it sells property rather than leases space. Although this writer has some doubt about how successful that approach will be. Western is working on its fourth site. Development Associates purchased the Crane Building at 300 West and 200 South with the intention of converting it to an office structure and Ali Manteghi is pushing ahead to develop a restaurant out of the old Jewish Temple at 249 South 400 East. John Price plans a condominium Drive-I- n professional park at the site of the old Park-V- u which will feature 100,000 square-fee- t in a clustered development. And these pages continue to report the filings of new corporations and partnerships, all of which gives this reporter the impression that while free enterprise may be taking its lumps nationally, it isn't dead yet in Utah. two-wa- him down. It will take time, but case by case all of us involved in business must challenge the government where it intrudes in : ah iojbp people ME, 3 WEEP M m WORSHIP LIVE WITHOUT HE .... &ue 6 I ROUT Investment Summary I SHAPE LIVES. I HOW TO SHOOT TO BUV. WITH WHAT THEV WAOT TEACH: WHAT QJU PRAIU lFROM EHPTlUKS lives. Fill W jur. TH 5 vote? lorni peopie ARE (SRAJEFUl. I AMIHEAVER ms OPMOUS EXIST WITHOUT OF . ROOT I AM THE 0F.V0OR WWJTEP A CROSS W UMlCOAl PRORAOT V00 EOT lUSIPES IF HEAP- - IT ME to, Pragmatic Dogmatics How Moss Beat Moss by Kent Shearer Afforded a reprieve by Republican Laurence Burtons disastcrous 1970 campaign, Utah Democratic Senator-uneleFrank E. Moss and his staff this year returned the favor to the GOP by waging an effort more unworthy (if possible) than six-ye- ar ct Burton's. From its inception, the Moss quest was paranoid. Knowing of Utahns' real preference to have one foot on each side of the illogic politely Senate aisle (a whore-lik- e ' called balance), the Moss camp feared in 1974 that fellow' Democrat Wayne Owens might beat Republican Jake Garn and remove a 1976 Moss thrust for balance. The consequence wras that the Moss camp, throughout 1974, provided valuable intelligence on Wayne to Jake. Then, late in 1975, another inexplicable fear surfaced among Mossites. It was that Cal Rampton would run for a fourth term as Governor, Gunn McKay for a fourth term as Congressman. and coupled with Moss search for a the Democrats fourth term as Senator could be labeled by adversaries as the Four Term Team." This early paranoia signaled later so as to improbitv. In Congress Moss voted have both worlds, and ended up with He supported Common Situs neither. comPicketing and forfeited the business the Clean munity. He fillibustcrcd against air Act Amendments and lost the community. anti-busine- ss Once in the field, paranoia and improbFor reasons I ity became irrationality. cannot fathom, three earlier successful Moss themes largely were dropped: ( ) the argument a la his first, 1958, success that everyone agreed Democrats would control the next Senate and that Utah would do well to have, not balance" per sc, but rather a voice in the majority caucus: (2) the Water Crisis," the name of a book he claims to we have authored; and (3) consumerism awaited in vain the kind of 1 well-orchestrate- neighbor-manne- d d, consumer poll" Moss ran in 1970. of these previously resorted to threat, Moss productive ploys, boast, bluster and fear. Democratic Senator Scoop Threat. Jackson of Washington came to Northern Utah on Moss behalf. He said that, unless Moss was reelected. Hill Air Force Base would be closed. Good men, even ones who balance." react believe in ephemeral negatively to threats. Boast. Moss boasted of what he had done for Utah. The merits or demerits of those claims aside, he did not speak of what, if reelected, he would do for the state. Constituents naturally inquired. But what. Senator, have you done for me lately?" Bluster. Moss actually permitted his own voice to be used on his electronic advertisements. It was an old voice, even if his was not an old mind, and should never have been utilized. Wallace F. Bennetts In the stead old voice was not so employed as to belie his contemporary mind in cither 1962 or 1968. The Moss condemnation of Allan Howe and his campaign appointment of Donald B. Holbrook also probably were mistakes: the fomcr due to civil libertarian sympathy for Howe; the latter based upon the vigorous 1974 preconvention effort of Holbrook, an a able lawyer, against Wayne Owens vigor that continues to rankle Utah's Camclotitcs. Smear. Running against Senator-elec- t Orrin Hatch, a conservative lawyer who had fulfilled Mormon ecclesiastical responsibilities. Moss attempted to brand his opponent: because he had received contri ( ) butions from Joe Coors; (2) a newcomer, like more Utahns than the Moss because he had been in the state staff imagined for less than a decade; and (3) a churl, as many Utahns he is a because .defendant in an unresolved civil suit. It was almost as if Moss had carved out beer drinkers, newcomers, and civil defendants and told each and every one of them not to vote for him. but to vote for Hatch instead. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee probably has a handbook on how incumbents should run for reclcction. Maybe it also should have one on how not to run for reclcction. When such a project is instituted, if ever, its number one case study should be the paranoic, improbitious and irrational 1976 Utah race of Senator-unclcFrank. E. Moss. 1 pro-bee- r, ct |