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Show t I Friday, August SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD Page 2 FIRST. tU individual, under GoJ' s laws, with certain unalienable rights. Michelangelos Role A Sympathetic One? We were visiting a nearby at IN 2185 South 9th East Publisher-Edit- or ---- 6-2- 333 J. --- Vol. 24 Dohn Lewis No. 32 Editorial Oath of Office Some people seem to believe that everyone should take an oath In which he swears allegiance to government We are wondering II It isnt about time for the government to take an oath that It Is supposed to have allegiance to the people- - GAZETTE TELEGRAPH, Colorado Springs, Colorado We were particularly impressed with the above para- We wonder if the very existence of government office creates an environment, a culture, within which such action is apparent was the need. At present, the members of government take an oath that they will defend and protect the Constitution of the United spawned and nutured? graph. We thought about it and the more we thought, the more States. This oath is taken under the direction of a member of some court. It is our observation that a small group of government people do attempt to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. The overwhelming majority appear to do just the opposite. Would this majority be subject to a pur jury charge? If men of government cannot be trusted to do as they swear they will do, what valid reasoning can be brought forth that the same men, who might willingly swear allegiance to the people, would be any the more trustworthy? Can you picture this: Allegiance .loyalty to that which is entitled to obedience or service and respect. The quote is from Websters New Collegiate Dictionary. As we said, can you picture this type of response from government men? It would appear that our government men are more prone to have allegiance to the unfed, ill housed, unemployed of other nations. It would appear that other countries are of more concern to government men than is this country. It would appear that a great number of government men hold far more allegiance to the United Nations than they do to the citizens of the United States. There is certainly more obedience evidence toward the UN members than to the citizens of the United States. We believe that public office today is the matrix of collec- tivism, or tyranny tand coercion. It is difficult to imagine that from the womb of a tiger you could expect a delicate flower. The only phenomenon conceived from the womb of a tiger is another, or several more tigers. What can a citizen expect from government? It is certain that he can expect taxation. Government also multiplies it- -' self. And, apparently, instead of the Constitution of the United States limiting government it has been interpreted to limit the citizens. A fairly recent practice is its tendency to compete, in the fields of philanthropy and business, with the citizen. We mentioned in the first paragraph that there was a need for government to take an oath that it is supposed to have allegiance to the people. We do not believe this allegiance is served by such monstrous and conspicuous acts of irresponsible philanthropy as is evidenced by our foreign Aid program. We do not believe this allegiance is served by the governments waste and duplication. This period in the history of our country may be noted at some time in the future as the time when the citizens wishes were ignored and the popularity of governmental opinion was sold to the people without taking a count of any kind. This is the period of law by bureau rather than law by representation. a conversation about books. ing that the author of THE li- Be- AG- ONY AND THE ECSTACY, Mr. Irving Stone was in the vicinity, it was natural that we would discuss his new novel, (Doubleday, 661 (Cont. from Page 1) (Cont. from Page 1) more is accidents about reconstructing the life of age to due to severe. A point in favor of the Michelangelo. low-speHow does one go about the tretunnel is that almost all aircraft accidents occur at low mendous project of reconstructing: the true and documented story and landspeed, during take-o- ff a of a man who lived more than ing. This fact indicates that remains four research hundred years ago? The of amount large medium-speed work actually began, answers to be done in the Mr. Stone, six years ago when range. Much of the experimental data I discovered that only a small of today is derived from precision portion of Michelangelos 500 letinstrumentation of accurately con- ters, family records and art constructed models. These models tracts had even been translated, will usually fit into an area of into English. Since this material one square foot, and give accu- was basic to my research, I had Dr. Charles Speroni, Professor of rate coefficients for full-si- ze Italian at U.C.L.A., translate them for me. This done, my wife and 1 sold our Beverly Hills home and Tonasket, Wash., Tribune: If moved our family to Florence in some ed brary this week and entered into 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. By Mail Payable in Advance Subscription Rates 1 in U.S.A., $3.50 Elsewhere $3 in Utah, year, Anywhere cents 10 Single Copy, Published Weekly Irving Stone Wind Tunnel Review 11, 1961 pp. $5.95). The lady behind the desk ask- ed us if we liked the book and if so, what we liked about it? We like creative people. We like to read about them, observe of them and be as creative as we todays taxpayers had 1956. can in our own small way. the gumption of their forefathers We set up a complete housewho made history with the Bosmost to was It us, ton tea interesting, party, it wouldnt take hold and office there, including to observe, in Mr. Stones novel, to call a halt to the waste- research assistants to work in the in Michel- long the barriers placed ful and extravagant spending by Latin and Italian archives. I was angelos way which prevented governments which grow bigger determined to stay in Italy as him from doing what he wanted and bigger and which exact more long as necessary, and there was to do. and more taxes to sustain their no way of telling how long the research might take. The entire The genius of Michelangelo is constantly expanding operations. task took something over four apparent in his marble sculpture Antigo, Wise., Daily Journal: years. of Moses. Michelangelo wanted to a great many of do nothing other than work with Equal educational opportunity the Fortunately, records of Florence ancient marble. He was ordered to do a for all is an absolutely asinine and Rome survive though getfresco on the ceiling of the Sistine statement, said Prof. John Guy at matter is them another ting Folkes, former dean of the Uni- and Chapel. the documents of the period versity of Wisconsin School of have many references to MichelMy library friend asked if we Education in a recent address to thought Michelangelo was a sym- educators at Madison. He said angelo and his family. I spent more than a year in and around pathetic character? this slogan should be replaced by Florence, tracing Michelangelos We were not looking for a equal educational opportunity for footsteps. Almost half of "The sympathetic character. Whether all in terms of ability and indus- Agony and the Ecstasy consists he was sympathetic or not was triousness or application. Going of newly discovered materials, to college is a privilege to be exof little import to us. never before published. ercised, and not a right to be In Carrara, site of the worlds That he created MOSES in mar- abused. most famous marble quarries, ble was of import. where Michelangelo worked as a Beaver Pa., Falls, The genius that was in control youth, I had to learn the local diChirecent in a In address of this man was far more interalect, now obsolete, before I G. John cago, Tower, historys could begin working with the esting to us than how he reacted first popularly elected Republic- quarriers, learning something of to his environment. an senator from Texas or any the art of marble quarrying and We are more interested in a other former Confederate state, carving at first hand. In addition mans successes than in his fail- has to that should to other sources, the late, great ures. Probably this is what is the be somethingoften. say n, repeated scholar and critic, Bernard matter today in this country, we Tower: Said Capitalism is not opened his magnificent pay far more attention to the a dirty word . . . The men who private library for my research, failures than we do to those who built the railroads and banks and as well as affording expert counsucceed. insurance companies and indus- seling on the whole project. We seem to reward failure and tries that have made the AmerWe spent another full year in punish success. ican people the most productive, Rome, where Michelangelo lived the most comfortable, the most for half of his working life, then Hillsborough, N. II., Messenger: resourceful and most reliable in lived for months on end in BologFree enterprise, someone once the world were not all of them na, Siena, Venice said has nothing to do with pol- They were capitalists. cities where Michelangelo had itics, or wealth, or business, or lived, suffered and created his class, It is a way of life in which BETTER GET YOUR SEAT masterpieces. When we returned the individual, you and I, are BELTS NOW . . . 'before Momma to America, we were preceded by important. gets them for you! The General three steel filing cabinets of reFree enterprise is the right to Federation of Womens Clubs is search and documents, besides open a gas station, or grocery launching a drive for a million several thousand pages of manustore, or to buy a farm if you and one in 61. 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