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Show December 2, 1935 THE UTAH STATESMAN Pagi Two Politics THE UTAH STATESMAN "A Weekly Newipapei Devoted to Good Government" Harry B. Miller, Publisher Getting Political Action Needs Leaders Gail Feltch, Contributing Editor 421 Church Street Editor's Note: It takes more than an eater troop to tet political action. When the troop is torether it must be directed. In this seventh article, Politics Your Job," the various methods of getting action are discussed. Phone Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Oiiice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $3.00 per year. Single copy 10c Published weekly at 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. u Vol. 9; No. 46 Your Job December 2, 1955 GETTING ACTION UNDERWAY There are always, in any community, a lot of good causes to Active Member be taken up. It takes support and to keep the cause alive. EDITORIAL NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 1955 push Often a good cause is lost because those who support it fail to go in for political organization Editorial and political action. This doesnt have to be party organization or party action. Both Democrats and Republiclear-cuClear-cu- t cans and demand want good schools, more t issues loyalty unity. parks, less slums, better handling This is where the controversial farm issue stands today. As of juvenile delinquency, imSenator Arthur V. Watkins pointedly stated this week, If they proved public institutions, a community planned for modem livbelieve in it, some other Republicans have got to help. Stand And Be Counted ing. He was demanding that COP members who are behind the The basis for all good social ideals and plans of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson action, as has been said, is broad participation by the citizens. stand up and be counted. This means be responsible for all potential voters in the block. The block chairman must get to know all the potential voters in the block and list their names. The block chairman will have to know the residence requirements for voting, plans to register, registration dates, change of address regulations, and the voting dates. It cant be taken for granted, after registration, that the individuals registered, hand to stand by on election day and transport voters to the polls. This will make it possible for as the sick and aged to vote well' as mothers who cant leave their small children for long. Other volunteers should be lined up ahead of time to act as while housewives to vote. out go As the municipal elections in Utah have just passed a lot of this information may seem like old hat. The most important thing to remember in getting and keeping political action, is to make the training period a project. These suggestions may help the neighborhood politicians in getting his own neighbors Interested in doing their part. Next week a vital subject How to get publicity for the campaign, will be discussed in this series. ... baby-sitter- s will vote. Some people forget. Others just cant get away from the office or home. The good block year-roun- d chairman will prepare for this, by keeping a check at the polling place through election day to find out who hasnt voted. Telephone calls to the laggards will get results. Volunteers with cars should be enlisted before Capitalists Need Continuing Capital To Operate at Status Quo U. S. a heavy registration The farm issue at hand is not dificult to understand. Simply: and a big vote. citizens to register Huge surpluses fill government warehouses. These exert a andGetting and organizing commitvote, depressing effect on farm markets. Farmers, if they maintain tees for n action on The operations of Americas amount of capital is always tied their present rate of production, must be subsidized by the gov- specific issues are among the first corporations re- up in the form of receivables ernment.. This cuts down on the competitive market. Secretary objectives to go after in any manufacturing quire the continuous use of large he amount owed by customers Benson is attempting to put a fluctuating price and production community movement to make amounts of capital 175 billion work. democracy of 1954. on orders they have received but at dollars end the effect which worth do will with into balance production, away program n A campaign to get This total is invested in assets not yet paid for. the subsidy plan and create a stable market. out the vote has to be planned. of many different kinds. All of At the end of 1954 this came to a cant The be It peohem are essential to the activi- 23.8 billion This move is inevitable. It is going to hurt for awhile. defimust dollars. In effect, mantake on ple involved ties of our manufacturing enterSome farmers may have to pinch the pocketbook and tighten up nite jobs to do. prises. Without this investment it ufacturing corporations had loanon production. But, the facts remain that it must be done sooner Each one can work on the would be impossible for them to ed this amount to their customers. other organizations to which he or later. goods or to keep people It is an investment of the funds or she belongs and sell them on produce of manufacturing corporations When Secretary Benson courageously attacked the problem the campaign. This is how to employed. build the mass base the campaign First, 66.4 billion dollars is and it is an unavoidable investhe faced a multitude of problems. He cut through the red-tap- e, the emotion packed arguments, the fiery oposition from both must .have if it is to be sucessful. tied up in buildings, land, and ment if goods are to be sold in Field work on the neighbor- machinery and tools. the manner now customary. of the farm issue and worked sides. He got to the bare-bonhood level must be planned. Elecfrom there. Manufacturing companies 'have The conduct of any business tions are won in the precincts . . . even an amount keep larger campaign chairman is needed requires that a substantial fund He could have ignored the overwhelming and inevitable A for every neighborhood. The nvested in what is known as of cash, or assets readily, converdecision and passed it on to a successor in future years, but he neighborhood chairman must find current assets inventories, and This type tible into cash, be held at all cash. receivables, didnt. He chose to take the stand and to stick by chairmen for every block in the of investment, also, is indispen- times. This is essential for meetneighborhood. to the conduct of manufac- ing expenses of various kinds inSenator Watkins said this week We cant leave to a few Women are good at this. They sable cluding. payrolls and taxes as cabinet members and mostly Benson himself the job of backing are apt to know their neighbors turing business. they fall due. up this farm program. Secretary Benson keeps slugging for his better than the men do. When Inventories are kept, not beOn Dec. 31, 1954 manufacturing they get sold on a cause, they cause manufacturers like to see program, but he is slugging alone. often work harder than men. Ex- a stock of goods piled up, but corporations held 28.0 billion dolBoth sides of the arguments are read- perience has shown that women because they cannot operate with- lars in the form of cash or U.S. The issue is dear-cu-t. Government bonds. This may very effective when it comes out them. ily accessible to all. It is a necessary move, an inevitable read-I- t are seem an enormous hoard of to at action the grasspolitical needs support. Now at the crudal hour the dear-cu-t A stock of raw materials must ready cash, but actually most of unity roots which means in the neighand loyalty of those believing in the Benson farm plan is needed. borhood, in the block. be kept ready at hand if costly it was already spoken for. The time has come to stand and be counted. Each block chairman should delays in production are to be For example, on the same date avoided. non-partisa- non-partisa- hit-or-mi- ss. es it Dawson Reports TRAGIC AFTERMATH . . . The tragic crash of a United Airlines plane which took the lives of 66 persons, including several members of the LDS Tabernacle Choir, has again focused attention on the operation of a little known international treaty of which this country is a party. The treaty known as the Warsaw Convention is effective in more than a score of nations but most travelers are unaware of its existence. LIMITS RECOVERY ... The effect of the treaty is to put a ceiling of $8292 on the amount that can be recovered for deaths due to crashes when the passenger has been in intercontinental flight between two nations that have signed the treaty. The limits do not apply only in cases where it can be shown that the crash was caused by wilful misconduct. ITS OPERATION ... Rep. William A. Dawson tation on recovery in case of a fatal accident. SEEM UNFAIR To many of us in Congress, the treaty seems unfair. There appears to be little justice in a situation that limits recovery to survivors of one air crash victim to $8292, when survivors of a fellow traveler across the aisle have no such limit. For this reason, I have asked the House Interstate anc Foreign Commerce Committee to investigate and propose legis tion which will grant the same recovery rights to all victims who are traveling on U. S. airplanes in the United States regardless of whether or not their journey commenced in a foreign nation. William A. Dawson TOO LATE If the provicovered by the treaty. Thus, if sions of the treaty are found to passage was purchased from Eng- apply in the case of any of the land to Salt Lake City, the death victims of the plane crash a recovery limit applies for those Medicine Bow, Wyoming, it is, passengers unless it can be shown of course, too late to do anythinj that wilful misconduct was about it. But I am. hopeful tha responsible for the accident. An- this tragedy will focus the atother American citizen who tention of Congress on the need boards the same plane in New for modification of the Warsaw York for Salt Lake City is not agreement as simple justice to subject to the treaty or the limi American citizens. ... ... the corporations had already accrued, but not yet paid, an income tax liability of over 10 billion dollars. They had bank loans amounting to over 4 billion dollars which would fall due within the next 12 months. Their notes and accounts payable came to almost 14 billion dollar. The cash holdings of manufacturing corporations are, in most instances, just as indispensible as their investment The custom of selling goods on in inventories, buildings, or credit means that a certain total Kentucky s Finest 6 YEAR OLD ( liERF.IL'LK HWZ-IE-R ngmj3i ; The death recovery limitations of the treaty operate when a person buys a ticket in a foreign nation which has signed the treaty, for passage to another nation V. By A stock of the finished products must be kept available in order o meet promptly the unpredicta ble demands of customers. In addition, since the manufacturing process takes time, there is always a considerable stock of partially finished goods in the hands of manufacturers. The amount invested in inventories at all stages came to $43.3 billion at the end of 1954. KENTUCKY since 1810 MTilUt rwU MB NTTUI Mntuwr ., BY I |