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Show iTjmAitr ZXIYXxmxr (jjr jjTjfrj Keview ofi (DTUunromiTi FEB E-voirut- o 1 3 1939 CJLX ZAXXJ20T EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. FEBRUAR VOL X; NO. 32 H Emergency Now Exists Says Roosevelt; Asks $ 1 50,000,000 lievs and Comment By M. I. T. I JUST WHAT IS THIS President Roosevelt in a special message to Congress Tues- THING CALLED day declared that an unemployment relief emergency exists, and BACKGROUND, ANYWAY? recommended immediate consideration of additional funds for theWPA. .. Every now and then you some folks boasting about background. Because of their ground they feel above the fellow and because of that ovafflt The message in full reads as follows: On Saturday, February 4, I approved house joint resolution No. 83, which appropriates $725,000,000 to continue the operations of the works progress administration for the remaining five months of the current fiscal year. I would have withheld my approval of this legislation on the ground of its inadequacy to meet human need and 1 would have immediately asked for a larger sum if it had not been for the provision that there shall not be a reduction of more than 5 per cent of the number of employes on works progress projects prior to April 1, 1939. This provision leads to the conclusion that the congress stands ready during the balance of Febru-- . ary and the month of March to reconsider actual needs in time to increase before April 1, the appropriation for the last three months of the fiscal year. In his message to the congress on January 5, 1939, I recommended a appropriation of supplementary was based on a This $875,000,000. to to give employment program 3,000,000 workers during February and March and to reduce this employment to an average of 2,700,- I 000 workers in June. This estimat ed reduction of 300,000 workers by - June took during the first week of February to utilize all the working capital and pay roll reserves- normally maintained to protect the funds of the United States against it will also be necessary immediately to reestablish these reserves from the supplementary appropriation. The net amount available to finance the works progress administration from February 1 to June 30 is therefore $725,000,000. In discussing the employment that can be provided for five months with $725,000,000, first consideration is given to the winter months of February and March. -- Continued 2) - -- n, Are there any differences between candidates for State Legislature, and members of the State Legislature? Most folks say there is. But, there should not be any difference. s liars of Of course, campaign promises make some of the legislators. There are members sitting in the Senate and in the House of Representatives who made positive promises to do certain things in order to gain favor of the voters. What are they going to do to fulfill those promises? There were a number of legislators, as candidates, who were anxious to receive the endorsement and support of the first-clas- Non-Partisa- n League. These candidates read the League platform and said it We are for the things the platmeets with their approval. form demands, they said. Lets see, are they for' those things the League plat form declares. As a reminder we are printing the part of the Legislaplatform pertaining to tion by the State of Utah. It reads as follows: Taxes We favor an equitable tax program; taxes to be levied in accordance with ability to pay so that wealth pays its proper share in the upkeep of government. Opposition to all forms of general sales taxes. Exemption of homesteads from the state tax levy up to $2000 and of household goods up to $500. For the benefit of the independent merchant and small business man we advocate a gradual corporation income tax and chain store tax based on the national unit, the principle of the Louisiana Act. Appropriation for investigation of tax dodging by corporations and wealthy individuals. We believe that a form of taxation should be devised so that the benefit of mineral and other natural resources, wealth shall redound to the tax revenues of, the state without any reduction in the tax revenues of the local communities. Agriculture We advocate legislation encour . aging the extension of cooperatives. We advocate a research program to develop uses for surplus farm ' crops. We advocate the agricultural . expansion of our education in schools. We are opposed to the manipula- tion of prices of farm products by and market gamblers. Labor We pledge our full strength and aid to the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively in conformity with the law of the land. We pledge our support to all workers in their struggle for higher wages and better working conditions. We condemn the spy system in the industry and urge the passage of legislation to this end. We advocate a liberal revision of state compensation laws, and this law to include occupational diseases. ' We propose enactment of an adequate wage and hour law. We favor a more adequate state labor department for the administration of labor laws. We propose enactment of legis-- ( Continued on page 3) middlemen well-rounde- It is regrettable, but nevertheless it is true, that several hear their back other atti- Congressmen heaped insults upon the heads of millions of loyal American citizens when the WPA relief appropriation was under discussion. Calling of names at the WPA workers was uncalled for, because the men who are on relief are just good, plain American citizens like all the rest of us, as patriotic as any, as honest as any, as proud of their achievements and as dissatisfied when they are wasted by idleness and enforced inefficiency as any. The relief workers are as good men as the Congressmen who called them names. They are American men who are simply out of work, not through any fault of their own but from the failure of this Government to do what it ought to do, and can do, and ultimately will do. Majority of the Congressmen seemed to be enjoying a lot of ignorant, misstatements of fact the unlimited abuse of everything in sight. What Congressmen really need most is a reversion to truth t telling and common sense. The truth is that for an emergency operation on a national scale, such as the nation has had to face, the setting up of the WPA is a brilliant success. Of all those who were criticizing Harry Hopkins not one could have done as well as he did. There was no precedent to guide the situation. There had been no na- panic which precipitated this unprecedented loss of unemployment, marked finally the end of free land in the Does extensive travel permit one to proffer bored or disdainful United States. The going to this wonderful area of free, tillable glances and disparaging remarks land a billion four hundred million acres at the end of the when listening to the less interest- Civil war had furnished the safety valve for men out of jobs ing experiences of others? ' on Page 4 (Continued THEY-D- O NOTlYet from what we see and hear daily, many people seem to think that these advantages or opportu? wr-page Candidates For Legislature And Members of Legislature i tude they display the ugliness of themselves. Just what is this thing called background, anyway? Does the fact that one comes from one of the oldest and best families in this or the mother coun try give him a background upon the strength of which he jnay take liberties with the common niceties and courtesies of life and be excused for such casualness? Doe3 a huge amassment of wealth with its subsequent power bring with it the privilege of being patronizing and condescending to those with small incomes? Or to those less fortunate financially? d and Does the most exhaustive education in the best universities grant one the right to look down his nose at those who tional planning. have had fewer scholastic oppor-tunitie- s The terrible economic recovery which might reasonably be anticipated. Must Reestablish Reserves Because it has been necessary over-obligatio- Some Congressmen Insulted Good American Citizens BETWEEN THE LINES nities which may be construed as background, do permit them to ignore culture, refinement, courtesy, By CECIL OWEN These values. real consideration n League. Publicity Director, Labors people go about with strutty minds ire difficult to meet, and impossi-l- e to live with. WASHINGTON Relief was in the CongTesional spotlight Surely we can not expect nor again last week at both ends of the Capitol. should we want to be carriec week As the the balancers seemed supreme built the opened budget by up pattern along upon our forefathers in the way o in the House. They had succeeded in slashing $150,000,000 sturdy characters and morals, re off the WPA fund and they expected the Senate to concur in sponsible - positions, this action. wealth, genuine culture, and self Butk a significant change of sentiment was apparent by carved named. After all we are what we; ourselves, think, feel, act, midweek and as the week closed the emphasis was entirely and say and by these attributes changed from economy to human need. Some observers atwe should be judged. tributed this change of heart to the snow outside the Capitol. Real greatness is never boastful; But those who talked with lawmakers knew it was the snow df it is humble. .And so those who are fortunate telegrams and letters from back home that was decisive. ,, n having a great ancestor or two What happened in ; Washington this past week offers should humbly strive to live up to that greatness rather than to heartening proof of the working. of democracy. An aroused and Congress responded. Once more it is shown boastfully drag it into the spotlight people spoke the that once most effective lobbying is the simply written message and thus cheapen what was reserved and fine. from the voter back home. Even Webster gives background The fight to save the WPA from being scuttled in midas obscurity, retirement, someis not yet over as this was written. But the g Why winter thing out of sight. . . . the should we lesser minds challenge compromise adopted by Senate Appropriations Committee indicated an Administration vichim? Those 137 House members who I know a well to do business man tory. Though the Committee kept who has inherited the business the House cut in the bill, it pro had voted to keep the WPA at the His back- vided there should be no dismissals $875,000,000 figure asked by Presifrom his ancestors. to him until April 1, and.it virtually in- dent Roosevelt welcomed publicity one is an important ground the most important thing in his vited the President to ask for more on their vote. The others did not. Liberals praised the League for Its life. He is, therefore, too busy to funds later. in compiling the Since the Senate Appropriations enterprise discuss even important deals pervote and in customers but his Committee is made up of some of predicted it would have sonally with assistants the most flinty-hearte- d stead has Tories in a healthy influence on the Conto do this for him, leaving him to Congress, this compromise by gress. The device of not taking a record do only directing behind the scenes. them was tantamount to an advote is resorted to by Congressmen a who is mission of defeat. The issue will be Then, I know another but rarely, and only on an issue much more prominent business fought out on the Senate floor. where they desire to play both Members Regret man. This man is humble," kind, sides against the middle. In the deHouse considerate to members beyond Many contact, regretted easy belief. He likes to mingle among this week their vote on the Cannon bate Rep. Cannon (Mo.), said it the people and talk to them, and amendment to the WPA fund bill. was subversive of representative visit with them.- - Nothing is too This wote, not taken by roll call, has government to deny a roll call trivial, too unimportant for his at- now become known to the conse- vote.. Now that Congressmen know tention. This man is truly great. quent: dismay of some is an agency that is checking there ancestral his of who friends labor voted I know nothing of whether they are offiall he votes, know do I on that Administration but what the against background or not, there is likerecorded is building up a background of his they hoped was a secret roll call. cially be less demand to for off the ly own so fine and true and splendid Labors League record loved whom all he voting. and that he is compiled the voting record by hen sent it to each Congressman serves. are Harry Hopkins a request that he indicate with people always Really great humble, perhaps because so many whether he was correctly recorded. Harry Hopkins is serving as the of them have risen from the lowrer The League announced its inten- current whipping boy in the deep tion to publish the roll call. (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 2) Non-Partisa- hard-eame- c face-savin- , well-train- ed self-style- d Non-Partisa- n |