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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD First Baptismal Ceremony Held at Night 2 WHOS NEWS HOTELS u'l THIS WEEK pense enters directly into the cost of the dairy products for which the consumer pays. It could easily result in an increase of one cent per bottle for the milk served to its customers. It takes no stretch of the imagination to conceive what the cost is for a large corporation to handle its official reports to various agencies of the national, state and local governments if that corporation operates, say, over half of the United States. The expense runs Into millions upon millions of dollars annually. Who pays? You and I, the consumers. I have not had access to all of the records required by the department of agriculture because many of them are confidential, but I believe it is safe to say that some I baptize thee, my brother . . . and a moment later Howard McGee became the first man ever to fifty-od- d reports have to be made be baptized in open air exercises held under floodlights. The novel baptism climaxed a revival conducted respecting every farmer who has near Gainesville, Gs., under the direction of Reverend C. E. Vaughn, who is said to signed up in compliance with the have given up a prospering furniture business six years ago to convert souls. A crowd of 500 persons watched crop control laws and the land conthe ceremonies. servation program. I think the farmer directly involved has from eight to ten of these reports and WORLD CROSSROADS official documents; the county committee which inspects and reports w on him has others; the county agent VANCOUVER has still more reports to make all i j still involving this one farmer but O U E 8 E C and well as these others including are followed by regional and national reports until all totals are entered here m Washington. Or, at the risk of being too personal in dealing with a national problem, I might cite my own experiences. Mine is what is called a office. That is to say, with the aid of a secretary, I must run my own little business. But even as inconsequential as that office is, consider this situation: I must file an income tax return annually. That return must include an extra statement which covers a general outline v.y of my meager income and the ex.. penses of my office. I must pay xAy. A t ten dollars a year for a license which gives me the privilege of writing to earn my living, but I must file a report before I get that license in the District of Columbia. Twice a year, I must file a report In one of the biggest trucking jobs ever undertaken, $1,290,000,000 Here is the international sign post of my gross return from my work in the District of Columbia and pay a erected on Treasure island in San worth of bar silver is being moved from Manhattan to the governments tax on that income. Each month, I Francisco bay, site of the 1939 Gold- new storage vault at West Point. One truck will move out of Manhattan have to file a report to the District en Gate exposition, showing dis- each day, five days a week, for about ten months before all of the silver is of Columbia employment board, tances from the worlds far cor- moved to the big reinforced vault. A company of 55 coast guardsmen are ners. Gaila McEntee acts as interassigned to serve as a protective convoy on the trips. Photograph showung how much I pay my secreone of the trucks being loaded with 350 bars of silver. shows traffic national a cop. how week hours she tary, many works and pay a tax which theoretically is saved up and paid to her in case she Is unemployed. Each ADMITS MOSCOW LINK A Gas-Maske- d month, also, I am required to file a report with the United States social security board, giving the same information and pay another unemployment tax. And each three months, I am required to file another report with the social security board which seems to be a report showing that the monthly reports are correct. President Roosevelt addressed a letter to Chairman Stuart Rice of the Too Many central statistical other board A1 Reports day, in which he asked in effect why there is need for so many official reports from individuals and corporations engaged in business. The Presidents letter indicated a feeling that, if there are so many reports as complaints have disclosed, something ought to be done about it. It is now Mr. Rices job to find out when, and where, and why concerning these floods of reports which But how government demands. about me finding out, too, I thought! I started on the Job like a bird dog through the bush. It did not take long for me to realize that I had set myself to a task that is likely to occupy Mr. Rice and his staff of several hundred perhaps a year to assemble an answer. I learned a lot of things, however, and that Is the reason I am writing about "official reports at this time. Speaking generally, at first, I can say that never in all history has there existed a condition such as business men and women now face, and, of course, within the last few years farmers have had to make out reports, too. The reason for the statement that the condition is worse now is that the situation represents a growth. Year after year, generation after generation, succeeding Presidents and succeeding congresses have added to the functions of the national government. Government has gone into new fields, taken on new obligations, new commitments, increased its scope of regulation of this and that and the other. As these functions have increased, more and more reports have been ordered and required; more facts have been needed, and, in addition, bureaucrats have relegated to themselves additional and unanticipated powers. Now, what we have is a tangled mess, a slimy octopus whose tentacles reach into every corner and nook and cranny of the nation. Before considering some of the horrible details (which are horrible only because they are so general in application), it seems to me we can well consider who is responsible. I mentioned above how succeeding Presidents and congresses have expanded the functions of government. Those Presidents and members of the congresses were elected by the voters. The campaigns, in nearly included every instance, for establishment of some new agency, passage of some law to drive money changers out of the temple; to prevent grinding the little fellow, the poor, into the earth; to regulate monopolistic business; to care for the aged after their lives of useful work had been spent; to collect new taxes here and there; to assure the agricultural communiIt has been my good fortune to ty a parity price for its products have gained a legal education by a thousand and one things were virtue of four long campaigned for or against. 'So the What's years of night people voted and elected a PresiThe Use? school, so I have dent or a senator or a representanot had to hire a tive. They also elected a governor lawyer to help me with my reports. and the various officials of their They have been comparatively simstate wherein & legislature operated ple, generally. But that is not the as does congress for the country. Case with a larger business. It has not mattered, therefore, Lawyers, however, would be no whether there has been a Democrat help in the circumstance that I am now about to relate. .A young lady or a Republican In the White House, except in the matter of degree to who had served as my secretary which the new laws have been enseveral years left my service. When acted. The growth has gone on just I filed the last monthly report for the same. Every time a politician her name and paid the tax, I atconceived an idea to get votes, .he tached a letter explaining that she campaigned on it and a new law was leaving and that there would be resulted. With the new law came no further reports in her name as far as I was concerned. The letter another deluge of "official reports. In a general way, therefore, the was written in the hope that the file would be complete. voters must accept some responsibility. But the chief responsibility This incident happened last Octomust rest with members of the house ber. In March, 1DJ8, I received a and senate and the various Presi- notice from the board, advising me dents who have served in their turn. that I had not paid the tax on the Why? Because no one can be exsalary of the lady in question for pected to understand fully this gi- the month of February, 1938. Not a gantic machine called government word about tire other months from unless that person has had an opOctober to February. And if I didnt portunity to study the machine. The pay, said the notice, there were layman has not had that chance. penalties, court proceedings, etc. Presidents and congresses have had Yes, you guessed It! I threw that the chance. notice into the waste basket. Two months later, I had the honor to be To get down to the details; that visited by an inspector. He was is, to relate some of the incidents courteous and gentlemanly, but which had become firm. I must pay the tax not for The Consumerknawn to the Pres-Pay- s February, but for December. You ident and which can let your owrn imagination run resulted in his let- high, wide and handsome about the ter to Mr. Rice, we might begin results of that visit. with taxes. The head of a dairy Well, I merely bring out those company which operates In three facts because they show the need states reported to his stockholders for the voters of the country to take lately that in one year his firm had some action on their own and quit been compelled to make and file a following blindly the demagoguery total of 11,115 separate tax reports of the politicians. That comp iny maintained a staff Previously in this column I have for the sole purpose of handling the written about several corporations various reports that had to go to which, after filing several thousand the federal government, the governreports, have had visit ments of the states in which the them to see whether inspectors they were comcompany operated and the cities plying with the law. Since that where milk and dairy products were time, one of the business men about sold. Having such a staff, the comwhom I wrote originally has told me pany knew exactly what it cost that other Inspectors have come to 000 a year. It should be added see whether the first crew had comtl e cost of that these reports necesplied with the law in making insarily became a part of the compa- vestigations. C WesU'tn NcviRp.ntcr Union. ny's overhead and the overhead ex WASHINGTON. Start Moving 81,290,000,000 in Silver M v niw, tv.:? one-ma- n v" v & le Holiday in Switzerland The Communist party in the United States is part and parcel of the Communist International, Earl Browder, party secretary, admitted during his testimony before a legisd that lative committee Inquiry Into law The Swiss public is becoming so precautionized strange sights are often to be seqn these days at this home of the observance. Browder Is pictured as holiday makers were photographed he testified during the hearing, held League of Nations. Two in New York. as they enjoyed a row on Lak Geneva. air-rai- gas-mask- Girl Sailors Do Everything hut Cook By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK PHOTO-KRAF- T N A o A t tTC W-i- te Teachings Jerusalem, was also unheeded: Will Be Remembered How often would IOUSE OF HOPPFR, 140 E. Bdv., Salt Lake TRUSSES I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her But wings, and ye would not! neither He nor His teaching was altogether forgotten. There will also be those who will remember Romain Rolland. When he was exiled from France, vast sums of money were offered him if he would go to America, to write and lecture. Publicity, or any form of selfexploitation, is to him profoundly distasteful. He withdrew to a secluded villa near Zurich, Switzerland. There is one definite attitude in all these post-wa- r writings. He had no faith in move-H- e Knew ments, in idolo- gies, right or left Righteous Can Be Cruel H repulsed Henri Barbusse, his clarte group and the various "united fronts," as he did the emissaries of bloody reaction from the right. He knew that the righteous can be as cruel as the wicked, once they find reliance on force. Like the great German Fichte, whom he esteemed, he believed only In the inner light never in organization or force. But he was not a political agnostic. He fought, and suffered, to arouse the world conscience, as the dying Tolstoi had enjoined him. He is a tall, spare, pallid old man, with thinning hair and sad, deep-seyes as he returns to France at Educated the age of seventy-two- . in music, at the Ecole Normale, he became a devotee of Wagner, whose genius inspirited his life then of Tolstoi and Shakespeare. He has written many times in the last few years that he sees little hope that the world will escape a last devastating war. 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