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Show Friday, September SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD Page 2 FIRST. tL individual, aws, with under certain unalienable rights. How California Has Saved 2 Billion Dollars It is obvious to all of us that a million dollars is a lot of money at the local tax level. And, certainly, when organcan cut ized $2,000 million (thats two billion, you know) out of local budgets in a single state and without impairment of public services thats important news to the other 49 states, says a release from the U. S. Press Association, Inc. How this has been done in California, in 35 years of eagle-eye- d surveillance of local spending by a citizens group of gimlet-eye- d vigilantes," is the subject of a report by Patricia and Don Detsch in the Digest September Readers that should be exciting and encouraging reading for everyone everywhere who pays waste-hunte- Entered as 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly on Friday. Payable in Advance By Mail Subscription Rates Anywhere in Utah, 1 year, $3 Elsewhere in U.SA., $3.50 Single Copy, 10 cents Published Weekly at 2185 South 9th East IN 6-2- 333 No. 35 Vol. 24 Editorial Communism and Education 1, 1961 rs taxes. How You Can Curb Your Local Taxes is a factual report on how the alert and ef- California Taxpayers Association (C a a x) for short, checks waste at state, county and town levels, re ficient 1- -T With the Berlin crisis on our doorstep, the Cuban trouble mess still with us, and sundry other stirred-u- p spots in many other parts of the world, each one a facet good will. And this is bound to have its effect on these Af- in the drive of international Communism to bury us and the rest of the free world, it would seem to have rican boys and girls now in come the timie for renewed, realistic analysis of the Yugoslavia. , work at machinations Red of Now different all led what has this types many rather than to let emotions rule our thinking. up to? We hope to win friendBy believing that if we ignore Communism as being ship for us and the western behind all these crises it will go away could be suicide. world, among other things, To be brief, Communism his never let up, is not letting through our Peace Corps" up now, and never will let up in its aim to destroy free- internationally untrained dom everywhere, not by arms except, perhaps by brush young men and women workor localized wars, but economically and politically, ing as laborers, as teachers, digging in here and there and eventually taking over. and in other fields. Lets take They utilize every resource. They take advantage of a look at the other side of the every opportunity. They can wait. Time is not of the paper. Mr. Gavrilovich sums essence. To go into the Communist program piece by it up succinctly by saying Before too much time has passed, piece, of course, is not possible here. these potential missionaries oi forenow is in Berlin know We crisis the that the front, but we should be wary about letting it completely Red doctrine will go home to eliminate all thinking about the over-a- ll Communist Africa. Meanwhile, America picture. We must still be aware of every move made by may have poured its billions the Communists. And they make none that is not a part into these underdeveloped naof their ultimate aims. For one example, take education. tions and will have tried, We know that in Russia and all satellite nations it is through its Peace Corps" to almost impossible for the children in those lands to learn win friendship for the western anything at all except what the governments want world. This may well be, for them to learn. They are indoctrinated from the very us, a battle against the opposition now being cultivated in beginning. considerable a time Yugoslavia and other satellite Quite ago the press reported Chechoslovakian scheme toward the communization of countries. Africa by wholesale adoption of young African children We cannot dismiss this and to be reared as members of Czech families. And more similar moves as ineffectual recently weve read that Marshal Tito, boss of Yugo- because of the comparatively slavia, has embarked upon a similar program. Tito, if small number of youngsters were read correctly, may not be a Soviet lackey but involved. For in their counhes a communist and a follower of the entire Commun- tries, while all forms of modist line. There has been an romance between ern communication are lacking Moscow and Belgrade for several years. It waxes warm in the extreme, there is comand cold. It may be a little cooler now since Yugoslavia munication by is booming economically can we thank the some $2 And this is most effective. It billions of our money poured into the country'? always has been in such areas. Oscar F. Gavrilovich, writing some time ago in the We can be sure that each Salt Lake Tribune asked if this adopting of African young man and woman, upon children by the Communist countries could be a mere return home, will be listened coincidence. To us it doesnt look like coincidence but to by hundreds of natives who rather as a part of the over-a- ll Communist plan to will, in turn be receptive to achieve world domination. the creed the students have Go The news has told us that Congolese youngsters, learned. It wont be easy for ranging in age from six years to their later teens, were our Peace Corps members warmly welcomed in Yugoslavia. In a camp this sum- to refute these Africans and it mer these young Africans were put to learning a new could be disastrous if they language. This fall they will be attending school and cant. What the Communists live with Yugoslav families or be housed in childrens are setting up is a Peace homes. Yugoslav schools, as do those in Soviet Russia Corps in reverse. The quesand all communist countries, teach Communism in all tion we need ask is are our its ramifications. When these children return to Africa methods of combatting this it is obvious they'll be dedicated to the creed of Comcleverly conceived battle plan munism. And we can be certain these first contingents effective enough? from Africa wont be the last. Hundreds, perhaps thousOf one thing we can be cerands of young Africans have for some time been attendtain Moscow will keep agiing schools in Russia. tating, first in one place or Tito has won considerable favor among African one form or in another. The nations as a result of visits there. There have been some world, as its now developing, reports that he has emerged as an idol in the eyes of is made to order for the kind many Africans. As a Communist he has cultivated of game Khruschev plays. off-and-- on word-of-mout- h. sponds to brush fires of extravagance wherever they may break out and saves taxpayers $400 for every dollar it spends. In 1960, for example, Cal-Tlightened local tax burdens by $145 million. It rescued one county from underwriting a road program it didnt need. It saved $50,000 a year by having the janitors at the State Capitol report for duty at 5 p.m. when they could ax start work, instead of at 3:30 when they would sit around at hour-andpublic expense for an half. It squelched a -a concession small pension that saved Los Angeles County $50 million. It effectively attacked abuses of state relief and adult education, established central purchasing for the school system. found a In short, Cal-Tway to combat a universal weakness in the conduct of civic affairs that those favoring wide and handsome high, spending always attend public meetings, while those who must get up the money sit home until its too late to howl. So effective, in fact, have its methods proved that the Cal- Tax pattern of organization I ought to be spent on them. They forget they themselves have to pay the bills. But x is reminding them in the most impressive way we be read aloud in the meetings have yet heard of. Here is a story that should be read aloud in the meetings of every taxpayer group in Cal-Ta- America. Bond Holders Will Get Extra Money Some half-milliAmericans who own Series H Saving Bonds bought between on June 1952 and Janary 1957 are in for a nice surprise one that will bring extra money into their pockets. Frank A. Wardlaw, Jr., Salt Lake County Savings Bonds chairman, calls attention to a recent change in Treasury regulations permitting owners of these maturing H Bonds to continue holding them for an additional 10 years at a higher rate of interest a straight 3 per cent annually. Mr. Wardlaw pointed out that these H Bonds were originally issued to pay an averand operation have been image of 3 per cent annually for 37 states eight-monother and the nine-yea- r, life ported into Cal-Tat least two dozen former of the bond. In 1959, this rate men have fanned out into was increased so as to bring the other states as budget experts final yields to maturity up to and administrators. Two have a range of 3.12 per cent to 3.36 even gone into the U. S. Buper cent. Under new regulareau of the Budget and we tions, these particular bonds, can hope there will be more. the first of which matures in one said of People figure, February, 1962, will return in these vigilantes, that since al interest checks a government spends billions of straight 3 per cent interest dollars, some of that money during the extension period. ax th ax semi-annu- Can You SeH Advertising ? or Are You Willing to Try? The South Salt Lake Herald Needs a Progressive Man or Woman to call on South Salt Lake and Sugar House Business establishments, soliciting Display Advertising on a commission basis No phone calls please Come in to the Herald Office at 2 85 South 9th 1 East for an interview Ask for Fred Bittner or LaMar Busath |