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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH THE SALINA SUN ROBBING THE NEST Published Every Friday at Salina, Utah First State Bank of Salina matter Entered at the pobtoffice at Salina aa second-clas- s 1879. under the Art of Congress of March 3, The Livestock Bank of Utah" 190,000.00 Surplus vwvw Advertising Rates Given on Application WESLEY CHERRY Editor ORSA B. CHERRY Publisher Member: UTILITIES MEET THE EMERGENCY TAKE YOI To just what extent have the executives of the private electric utility industry risen to the triads of the national emergency? An answer to that important question was recently given hy a high government officiul Rasil Manly of the federal power The best argument in favor of the str ictest possible reduction in government spending is found in" the new tax bill. That bill will brackets income reach down into never touched before by direct foder increase! It greatly al taxation. taxes in all brackets, and on all inIt is the dustries and individuals. stiffest tax hill in American history. Yet it will produce less than additional a year and our aims spending alone, according to estimates, will soon reach $30,000,000-00a year! There is but one way this country can be saved from a burden of debt and taxation that would ruin us as surely as would military defeat. That way is by cutting every item in the budget to the absolute hone. Government must cud its competitive program again highly taxed private business, on which it depends for the bulk of its tax revenue. Government in hanking, in the electric power field, in real estate, in fanning, and scores of other projects, is simply destroying its future source of tax revenue. Either we will maintain the old American system of private enterprise, or in another decade, at the pace we are traveling, we will wind up under a program of state socialism which will parallel the Hitler regime. 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The executives of American utilities do not, in my opinion, desire or expect to earn excess profits from their activities in mel ting the enormous demands for power arising out of the requireWith ments for national defense. rare exceptions they have cooperated wholeheartedly with the government in meeting those demands. And, in those vital cases where efforts may he made to convert the nation's power requirements into additional dollars of excess profits, the regulatory processes of the state and federal INTOLERABLE commissions should he, and will be, SITUATION exerted effectively to restrain them." Dairy fanners want to do their The spirit shown by the utility full share in the national defense efmanagements is the kind of spirit said the Dairy mens League which will make this vast defense fort," News of New York, recently. They program a total success in a world want to increase but they production involved in total war. It is parare having to wor k night and day, and ticularly noteworthy in the light of the member s of their families are hav the vicious, progress-delayin- g politito work night and day, to even cal attacks being made on the industry pig an existence. maintain by a group of politicians is an intolerable situation. This whose real goal is the ultimate sois constantly going income Labor's cialization of all this countrys basic resources. Given a chance, private up and commodity costs are moving who proenterprise will prevent any power with it. Yet the farmer, of basic most duces the necessities, shortages in this country and will do it with private money, not tax food, is expected to scrape along as money. In the name of national de- best he can without adequate labor, fense, it is high time to call off the and to sell his produce at price levels in congress and other which are barely sufficient in normal times. Long enough continued, that branches of government. is hound to have a dangerous effect The Do you feel sorry for the girls who on our nutional food supply. wont be able to buy silk stockings? farmer must he given equality with You should feel more sorry for the other groups. men who will have to look at the It seems odd to us that the admingirls who wont he able to buy silk should get sore about the istration stockings. post cards Senator Wheeler sent out. This country is in an ulcerated After all, the first statement on the state, aggravated largely hy the ap- post card was hy President Roosevelt. plication of the many quack remedies Trouble was, though, it was a cam of the New Peal. paign promise. in utility-baite- Federal Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation CHOICE commission. Mr. Manly described negotiations between the commission and a leading eastern utility concerning power production for major defense industries. Those negotiations ended in complete agreement on two essential principles: First, that there should he no excess 25,000.00 $ Capital WAR DENTIST - - UTAH Office Hours: 9 PROFITEERING . SALINA to 12 a. m. 1:30 to 6 p. m. A act of 1,250,000 railroad workauthorizing a strike because impossible wage demands have not yet been met, presents the country with a dangerous defense problem. The railway workers have deliberately refused mediation and arbitration. They have held tenaciously to wage demands which, if accepted in their entirety, would cost the railroads the sum of $900,000,000 a year more than 20 times the average net income of the railroad industry in 10 years ending 1910! They have said, in effect, that if the railroads and the government mediation hoard do not capitulate, a defense program on which the very life of free, democratic government in the world may depend, will be brought to a standstill. These railroad wor kers are the highest paid in the world. Their hour and working .standards are unsurpassed An elaborate, in any industry. ment-enforced arbitration system exists to protect them against any injustice. Their wages are higher than in the boom year of 1929, even as their of living costs are lower. standa-'Yet they vote for a strike despite the need for accelerating the arms program, despite the presidents declaration of an unlimited national emergency which demands the full, un- The man who stands hy idly while laws are prepared and passed to destroy some other fellows business, shouldn't be surprised if he eventually comes in for similar treatment. A notable ease of that was recently mentioned hy R. I). Silliman of the Iowa Store Council. The automobile dealers in Michigan had no particular interest when in the crusaders and magogues that state were successful in passing a store tax over the governors veto in 1933, saiti Mr. Silliman. They did take a very deep interest in the store tax when on February 29, 1910, the attorney general of Mici-ga- n wrote an opinion that made all automobile dealers in independent Michigan liable for the store tax on their used ear lots. Automobile dealers will also be interested in the outcome of the case of the Ford Motor company, vs. Armstrong, now pending on appeal in the supreme court of Colorado. Armstrong, the state treasurer of Colorado, was demanding from the Ford Motor company, under authority of the chain store tax law, taxes and penalties for the years from 1935 to He also demanded 1939, inclusive. chain store taxes from dealers selling the products of General Motors and Chrysler. What is true of the automobile dealers, is true of other businesses. Once we establish the precedent of levying class taxation against one business, no business can consider itself safe. Your business may be next in line and the outcome may be ruin for you. There is no room in a free economy for class or punitive legislation or taxation of any kind. The interpretations placed upon the Michigan and Colorado chain tax laws provide dramatic proof of what can happen. Tire ers in your This is a disAmericans. graceful example of war profiteering. Map The fifth graders are making a big things to learn about our government. Some are making continents map. Cheryl Larson. and others are making background. Others will trace the travels of the An inquiring writer asks the Goodalphabet. Relva Jensen. year Rubber company to tell him what makes rubber bounce. After Long Ago that one is settled they might go the fifth and into the question of rubber checks. In social studies, sixth graders are learning about An average American, judging from people in the olden times, what they did and how they made things. It the excitement on our east coast, is interesting to learn about people would take a shortage of his gasoof long ago. Retty Rae Okerlund. line more seriously than he would a shortage of food, medicine or clothOur Government ing. Save a dime a day and one dollar on are studying The sixth graders about government in social studies. your birthday. At the end of a year They are going to study about city, for your $37.50 you can purchase one $50 (maturity value) Defense Savcounty, state, and national governThere are many interesting ings Rond. ments. govern- qualified cooperation of every American. No one needs to he told what stoppage of rail transport would mean. The vast bulk of war production, no must less than normal production, move by rail, and by rail alone. Thus, a railroad strike in this country would do more for Hitler and his Axis than a dozen military victories in Europe. It is impossible to exaggerate the gravity of this situation; 1,250,000 highly paid, highly favored workers are threatening an out and out holdup strike against the safety of 130,-000,0- STORE Every day or so, we Americans make a shopping trip. W'e may go to NORTH SEVIER an independent store or a chain store, SCHOOL ELEMENTARY a department stor or a super-marke- t. NEWS NOTES We may want food or clothes or hardware or furniture. Whatever the circumstances, the store we patronize The Council Decides In student council last week it was is one of the marvels of the twentieth decided that the hoys and girls should century. off the lawns two days a week. thoulive stay of hundreds Perhaps you sands of miles from the great pro- Equipment must be taken good care ducing centers of the country. Rut of. Money was collected to buy a votrr store, or a store within easy wedding present for Miss Herbert. driving distance, offers you the same A set of glass dishes and two book goods, at the same prices, as are of- ends were given her. LaRene Miller. fered in the biggest cities. And it provides you with just about the same Leaves The first graders are gathering kind of service. leaves. They wax them and then Nowhere else on earth has retakThen they do not them up. hang Ik'i'H to the degree of ing developed Green leaves are growing wrinkle. service, economy and efficiency which Yellow leaves are dying leaves. is commonplace in the United States. A little leaves. up and grows layer Nowhere else on earth does retailing eater so well to so many different then the wind pushes the leaves off kinds of consumer tastes. That is the tiers. The First Grade. ne of the reasons why the American standard of living is the envy and Planting a Tree The second grade has a tree seed wonder of the world. War demands will produce changes that they an going to plant. They in our stores. Some goods will dis- will take good care of it. They hope The appear, others will grow scarce and it will grow into a big tree. second grade. so And costly. today modern retailing is pushing suitable substitutes, and educating tne public to buy more Foods The third graders have been makModern merchandisers are wisely. a food chart. They have drawm ing rendering you and your family a servThey have ice that really deserves the adjective many kinds of foods. started a health booklet. They are vital. writing stories and poems for the Neal Cropper. booklet. a million pounds of metal, Half dehe saved for mostly tin, may fense this year through substitution Leaf Collections The third and fourth grade is makof plastic iii the metal tips that go The boys and on shoo laces. According to current ing a leaf collection. of leaves. lots are gathering girls one will of estimates, pound plastic in replace more than three pounds of They will wax them and put them also book. are pica making They metal. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY COPYRIGHT 1941, THE 86 PROOF THIS WHISKIY IS 5 YEARS OID OLD QUAKER CO LAWRENCEBURG, IND. |