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Show Sugar House, Utah --Thursday .April 30,1959 Page Two IDIIIIS2IPIS2imE2)I52Krir DIG THOSE CRAZY LIGHTS The State and City spend millions of dollars to create through streets, expressways and . freeways then turn around and put up more traffic lights than a Christmas Tree. Have you driven south on State Steet to Sandy? You'll find lights guarding dead end streets, country lanes and almost alleys. And of course one of the finest collections of Speed Zone Signs you'll find anywhere ranging from 20 miles an hour up to 50 and nicely assorted to break the monotony of trying to get some place. You have a duplicate of this situation on the north bound highway to v Ogden. The traffic boys have overlooked a good bet for another light right at the entrance to the State Prison. This light could be "synchronized to allow escaping prisoners a chance to get out on the highway safely. Driving east or west along 4th South at night is quite a pretty trip with the banks of four lights at each intersection that look like a pinball machine paying off. Seventh east is equally attractive with six lights. When the man said "'Let There Be Light" the street department went all out. Free Speech Essential For Freedom "Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of truth is useful; without free speech pro-gress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousand-fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race." The above quotation from the work of Charles Bradlaugh is very apt in exemplifying a recent television broadcast by Elmo Ro-per and Palmer Hoyt called "Press and the People". Mr. Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post said, "We have a little rule on the Denver Post which we try to abide by. Our rule is, print the news as honestly, fairly, and completely as we can comment on it by ex-perienced and educated writers as adequately as we can and, three and most important, do not allow those two to meet in other words we don't want to ruo editorials in our news columns or headlines." In a paper the size of this weekly, it is impossible for all sources of straight matter not to meet in fact, most of us live together. Mr. Hoyt cited numerous times his paper took sides in a national election to be proven wrong; the switchboard would be deluged with calls of the "I told you so "nature, with consequent loss of readers. When adequate reporting would be given in later years to both po-litical parties, the calls were at a minimum and circulation took a boost. Mr. Roper was asked the rea-sons most people had for buying a newspaper. His reply."! think that the news column is the num-ber one thing people buy a news-paper for. Then I think the num-ber two varies. With some it is the financial news, others it is the editorials, others it is the comics. But news is the main rea-son for buying a newspaper.." Lyons, curator of Nieman Fel-lowships at Harvard University, agreed with Roper that growing monopolies in the United States daily newspapers are limiting the channels of information to the public. They said it. could be. a possible danger to American de-ocra- cy. If you have read this far, we ; would like to invite criticism on our news coverage, departments you would like to see enlarged, any bias you detect in our views, and any personal contribution you .might make to our personal col-umns. This is YOUR newspaper. KHN SEN. RUSSELL The following remarks are ex-cerpts taken from a speech de-livered by Senator Richard B. Russell (D.-G- a.) to Georgia Bank-ers Convention at Augusta, Ga., April 15, 1959 and was recorded in the "Congressional Record" of April 15, 1959: The already staggering national debt appears likely to hit another alltime high as a result of the largest peacetime deficit in hist-ory. The Federal Government has wound up in the red in every year but five since 1930. The menace goes to the heart of our great American system. Unless we put our financial house in order and do so quickly we may wake up some morning to find that our system of free enter-prise and individual freedom and initiative has been transformed into a system of State socialism. There is a widespread belief that recent tremendous increases in Government spending have been due to the necessity of providing for national defense. This is not the case. The great increases in Federal spending have been in domestic and civilian programs. It is somewhat ironic that Great Britain, a country which we helped put on its feet with financial aid and loans after World War II, last week announced a major re-duction in taxes. The present trend is also cer-tain to mean an ever increasing Federal debt which now amounts to about $1,680 for every man, woman and child in the Nation. Interest on the debt alone now takes about one-ten- th of all Fed-eral tax revenue. It will mean the concentration of greater and greater powers in the hands of an already much too powerful Federal Government in Washington. It will further reduce the importance of State and local governments and will increase government controls and interfer-ence over private enterprise." MOSS URGES REVIEW OF U.N. CHARTER Washington, United States support for review of the United Nations Charter is urged in a Senate Resolution being co -s- ponsored by Senator Frank E. "Ted" Moss. The Resolution notes that a report on revision of the Char-ter is to be made to the Four-teenth Session of the General Assembly --(which begins in Sept. 1959), and asks the United Srates to support the holding of a, Char-ter review conference within one year of Assembly action on that report. "Serious consideration of rev-ision of the United Nations Char-ter should bring nearer the goal of a rule of law for all the world," declared Senator Moss. "Changes in the Charter must certainly be made if we are to get around the problem posed by continued Russ-ian vetoes in the Security Council". "This Resolution is necessar-ily very general in nature, and leaves the details to be worked out when a body is set up to review the Charter." Senator Moss also stressed the importance of expanding the influence of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. "If we 'are determined to make this the kind of world we want, we must take more initiative in international relations. We must continually attempt to improve all organizations and methods through which we deal peacefully with other nations," he said. The Resolution on UN Charter review also requests the President to initiate high level studies in the Executive Branch to determine what revisions to the charter of all international organizations to which the U. S. belongs should be made to "to promote adjust and lasting peace through the "dev-elopment of enforceable world law." There are many significant facts regarding Salt Lake City that will go down in history but the one that will stand out above all others is the fact that we seem to have an administration by men that have never had a childhood. Suddenly, without notice or the courtesy of previous discussion, there appear six policemen to arrest high school students for . Jay-walki- ng. This is something that has been going on for months and months witn no attempt made be-fore to correct the situation and all of a sudden they have a "drive". drive on traffic violators, or other faw violators, by a police department merely means that they have been neglecting some sit-uation for such a long time that it has gotten cut of hand and for their own benefit they must do something about it. It is a correc-tion of their own fallibilities, not those of the public. Anayway six policement were able to arrest at least 60 high school students for something they had been doing for years, and all of a sudden it became a serious threat to the public safety. A large percentage of the pub-lic is "fed-u- p" with the arbitrary decisions handed down by the ivory tower "brass" in the city that can see no further than that all things are either black or white. After all there are as many different ways of life as there are people and no one or two persons have the moral nor legal right to impose their way of living on others in spite of the fact of power which they excerise to imply that a , citizen' lives they way they say "or else". OTHER OPINIONS The Senate shows no interest in making public the pay rolls of individual senators. And one of the arguments for continuing sec-recy has been put most vocally by Senator Dirksen of Illinois, the Senate minority leader. .Dirksen is "very definitely" opposed to opening the pay rolls and is amazed at the "lack of perspicacity" of anyone who even brings up die subject. Open list-ing of pay rolls would be "bad for morale," says Dirksen. It would lead employees to compare salaries and foster jealousies. He can picture "secretaries gathered around the water cooler" gossip-ing about salaries, wasting time and drumming up trouble, The argument has no standing. Other government salaries are public. The House of Representa-tives lists its pay roll schedules showing the name of each in-dividual and how much he or she ear ns. The Senate itself listed salaries until the 80th congress. President Truman called it the "do nothing" congress, but the Senate did something. It clamped secrecy on its pay rolls. There was a Republican majority then. But the following Senates, whether controlled by Republicans or Democrats, have kept the secrecy. " Nobody seems able to re-member why the Senate imposed secrecy. One Democratic senator, who declined to be identified for quotation, said that when Senate salaries were listed "a lot of bill collectors and insurance salesmen were coming around and bothering" employees. But Senate employees are no different than House or other gov-ernment employees. The plain fact remains that the senators keep pay rolls secret with a few ex-ceptions because they don't want the public to know who is getting what. Nevertheless, it is the pu-blic's business and the public should makes itself heard in def-ense of its rights. Milwaukee Journal. CLASSIFIED; WANTED: Reliable man or woman to distribute line of cigarettes, candy, nuts and gum through new automatic merchandisers. No sell-ing. --We establish accounts for you. To qualify party must have car and cash capital of $400 to $1700 which is secured. Excellent earn-ings part time. More full time. Write Mr. George Conrad, 1201 Turners Crossroad, Minneapolis 16, Minn. Laws are not made for the good.-Socrat- es. PERFECT GIFT for Mother's Day An extension telephone ... in your choice of 9 new colors, attractively gift boxed and K delivered to your home. g Just call your telephone jJ business office. 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Por stubborn cases, get Extra Strength Zemo. INDEPENDENT South East Indeoesfeatt The South East Independent ta entered as Second Claw Matter, March 1, 1946, in Salt Lake City Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. It is published each Thursday morning. TOSl NOTESTTNIJ Owner and Publisher HU 51 EMERSON S. SMITH Managing Editor DA M881 Subscription rates are $3.00 per year or ten cents for the single copy. Send all mall 'to box 133, Ougar House Statiou, zone 6. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-contr- ol, diligence, content, strength of will, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.-Charl- es Kings ley. |