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Show 2 c We were startled and amazed to receive a Tetter from James Amo Kirldiam, publicity director of the Utah State Fair, tliis week in which he bluntly stated that we would receive advertising on the State Fair only in proportion to the amount of free publicity we give them. The amazing thing is that this Is the first time in our experience that anyone has ever sent us free publicity releases with the statement that we must print them or lose their advertising. We sell our advertising on its own merits, and do not buy it by running free publicity for anyone. This newspaper, along with all other weekly newspapers in the state, receives enough material in the mail in the form of free press releases to fill five times our available space.. The biggest part of these releases advertise some firm or its products. A certain amount of it is interesting and even important. With our limited space and lack of help, we do not print niqny free releases. We would rather give our space and time to local news, which is what our subscribers expect for their money. Why should this man, who is spending public money, have the effrontery to tell the newspapers of Utah what they have to print? Speaking for the papers we publish, we wish to tell Mr. Kirk-hathat his releases will be printed or not, with no thought of the advertising he is promising or m threatening to withhold. i After receiving such a letter, we know that the releases f om that source will have to be better than good to even get the editor to read them ' tlirough. 1 o REAL ESTATE Drinking and Driving Is This Coercion? South Cache Courier LOBBY President ' Truman aimed some barbed remarks at both congressional "inaction and the real estate lobl;y when he discussed housing with spokesmen for eight national organizations who called to protest tragic delays in building homes. Trumans remarks were inspired by criticism from David L. Krooth, of the housing legislation information service; Wesley Pearce of Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Lee Johnson of the national public housing conference, who minced no words in telling the President feat the nations housing program had failed and why. They pointed first to the tremendous falling off in home construction in the first three months of this starts" were year. Only 45,000 made in home building in the first quarter of 1947, they said, compared with approximately 60,000 in the first quarter of 1946. In other words, last year, when we had government controls, we were getting more home construction than we are now, although the construction industry and its friends in congress told us that building would increase when the controls were lifted, said Krooth. The President said he was fully aware of this. Grimly, he admitted that the housing situation was not improving if anything, was getting worse. We need a lot more rental construction than we are getting, obIt is way served the President. down. Builders are putting their houses up for sale at high prices that the public cannot afford to pay. Truman added that the end of price controls, plus delay in passing urgently needed housing bills, such as the Taft public housing bill, were chiefly accountable for the housing shortage. He said that he had made five appeals for passage of the Taft bill. WASHINGTON. The combination of drinking and then drivis putting increasingly more people in morgnes ing and hospitals and junking more cars than ever before. Last year in the State of Utah police records showed iliat 569 persons involved in traffic accidents had been drinking. And indications are that this year the trend is up. A recent survey covering 34 states indicates an alarming increase in drunken driving. In more than half the states covered, this increase ranged from 50 to 100 per cent. Drinking was the cause of one out of every six fatal traffic accidents in the United States last year. The driver who kids himself into believing he can hold his liquor, or take one of two quick ones and still be a safe driver is sooner or later were enliquidated in the casualty column. If he be his would own that his life, dangering only his when But erratic,' problem. driving threatens the lives of others, lie becomes a highway menace to be dealt with by the law. lack-of-contr- ol deRepeated tests prove that alcohol has a and vision pressing effect upon driver reactions, good judgement. The real drunk seldom gets far. He either runs off the read or stops and falls asleep. But the person with just enough alcohol in his system to become carefree and irresponsible is particularly dangerbus behind the wheel. Its nobodys business whether a person should drink or not, but its everybodys business to get tough with the driver who insists on imperiling his life and the lives of others by drunken driving. long-rang- - - i Peterson ed. We cannot teach of God in a home Indian miss-o- n to be is expanded so as to ake in several more Indian ribes in New Mexico and About 90,000' Indians are enlarged :o be included in the nission. Prest. and Mrs. S. Flake of Snowflake, Ariz-m- a have ben called to preside people when love and mothers and mother! Navajo-Zu- ni Ari-:on- a. Eu-re- ne the thing that the idea of for is violated. Harry Fosdick. Co Mothers Day There is always some hope for in a land on fundamental virtues. It is a genuine religie; tion that recognizes and the most potent influent lives of men and nation that in the Divine plant mother is the nartner nr The observance of Day has now become ale 5 j i Hunter, O. Wilson, and Virgil G. have recently been ingive addresses on the part Mor monism has- played in the building of the West, before a meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at Columbus, Ohio, Elders Meredith Peterson vited to Milton R. iversal. The love for mo been shown in many fort ward symbols, such a cards of appreciation, messages, family visits, trips, etc. The more gen sincere the gratitude in n of the child, the more; will be the joy in the so Prest. George Albert Smith Is mother. No greater joy t scheduled to attend three East- her than the assurance ern stake conferences this month, child has measured up viz. Chicago, Washington and hopes she had for him. New York. He will also attend It would be hard to the annual Congress of the Sons a finer example of the : of the American Revolution at motherhood than was - j ... - I H. Feelings of sympathy and ;rateful remembrance have come rom all parts of the land to the 13 year old childless mother who vas the founder of Mothers Day, ,Iiss Anna M. Jarvis- of Weschest ;r. Pa. She is at present a blind tnd deaf bedridden patient at a irivate sanitarium; The e- Diary notes from the Byrd expedition: En route to- Antarc- tica, members of the expedition were shown movies, of a pre- vious expedition. One shot fea- tured the explorers staggering through a fierce blizzard; of wind and snow. Actually fee wind and snow were- - artificial, made by placing fee men- be-hind an airplane propeller. We are not going to fake any shots on this trip,- photographers were told. . . . But fee last day of the expedition- a crew spent several hours jacking fee tail of a plane off fee ground. Once the plane was level. Admiral Byrd was photo- graphed looking out the door, supposedly dropping flags over fee South Pole. IIIEMVfr. KSfcl John v answer to' There is only one common-sens- e this particular accident problem if you drink, dont drive; if you must drive, dont drink! li i. ' Huntington, West Virginia. in the studios of radio KSL Sunday morning, 22 volumes of cemetery rec- when Governor Herbert contributed mostly by miss- presented to Mrs. Emily ords SENATORS SECRET WEAPON of the U. S. have been listed Richards of Logan, Utah ions Senate Appropriations Chairman in the State Genealogical tificate signifying that Bridges of New Hampshire has been chosen by the State dusted off a generally forgotten law Committee of the and intends to use it for economy Sunday, June 8 has been set as the idea purposes. on which to can Mother of Utah. I He is hiding up his sleeve a 1905. aside as the date act making it a prison offence for hold Churqh wide exercises in tributes to her and all of the restorasymbolizes in American any government official to spend commemoration hood were expresed money so fast early in the fiscal tion of the Melchizedek Maw, Mayor Curtis L. I year that he must seek a deficiency appropriation for his bureau later Logan, and Mrs. Victor The annual MIA conference of Richmond. in the year. one week In her response Mrs. I Bridges suspects that some gov- will be held June ernment officials make it a practice later than usual. graciously expressed her to get their budgets approved in one for the unexpected her An LDS chapel is to be dedi- humbly made her listen appropriation act and then toward the end of the year send a new apcated Sunday, May 18 at Klam- that she richly deserved' propriation to congress in the death Falls, Oregon by Prest. David nal honor. ficiency act.. O. McKay. She is the mother of Bridges has been talking the major respond ren, about jailing a few governis not simply a way their care having devoir Religion who ment administrators knowingly of thinking but also a way of her from the fact that' work on the theory that they should band died before the living. spend now in order to get a deficonis so not much one was born. She said Religion ciency later. unto as children been married in had all sciously taught On the other hand, it is some9 pie, are observers of times impossible for even the most consciously caught by them. supports We sacredcannot teach of and the Wisdom, conscientious public servant to ness of personality in a home way of life that seems' know what the needs of a departwhere personality is not respect- - her. ment will be later in the year. 11-1- 5, E pri-vate- ly ! t t. Lonnie Carberry of Temple, Tex., was showing President Truman how he could take his artificial arms off and on. 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For complete information inquire at your nearest Union Pacific Ticket Office UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD MERRY-GO-ROUN- D President Truman could hardly believe his ears when GOP Sen. Alexander Smith of New Jersey and members of a senate education and public welfare subcommittee sought his views on legislation to create a national science foundation. On legislation of such importance to national security. Smith explained, it was vital to have a prior' understanding with the White House in order to expedite passage and avoid a possible veto. Tickled pink, Mr. Truman complimented Smith on his statesmanlike, apnonpolitical proach, adding that our lawmaking would benefit if the same formula was followed on all bills affecting public welfare and security. j "When blown as I have just blown it, this truiP' known asjj moose call, may prove surprises r l( j |