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Show Page 2 Octota 5, 195S THE UTAH STATESMAN THE UTAH STATESMAN "A Weekly Newspaper Devoid le Geei Don Covenant JQo Comment Ware, Editor By JAMES W. DOUTHAT Edwin W. Kain, Advertising Manager 421 Chuck Street Phone EM 4-3- Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake ttty, Utah, under the act of March 3( 1879. Subscription rate 31.00 per year Published weekly at 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, 1956 October 5, 1956 Vol. 10; No. 39 Editorial Labors Share The Democrats favorite theme that the big guy gets all the benefits of the Eisenhower Republican prosperity while the little guy is not getting his full share is baloney. At the risk of mixing metaphors, when the pie is cut, labor receives a larger slice under Eisenhower than it did under Truman; the big corporations on the other hand, have received smaller slices under Ike than under Harry. Lets take the National Income (total net income of persons and corporations) and see how it has been divided: National Income, for the Nation as a whole, has risen and so has labors share. Undo: seven Truman years, labors share was about 65 per cent; under Ikes first three years it has risen to about 69 per cent Conversely, corporation incomes after taxes have accounted for only six per cent of the national income undo Ike as compared to 7.7 per cent under Truman. As for corporation dividend payments, they remain about the same under both Presidents; on a basis they have been higher under Truman in a few instances. Another important item is personal income which is, primarily, National Income with corporation profits and business taxes excluded. Labor income has averaged about 75 per cent of total personal income under Ike; under Truman it was about 71 per cent. Finally, there is per capita disposable personal income the income of persons less taxes. This averaged $1,508 in 1952. It has risen to $1,630 under the Republican Administration. The Eisenhower Administration has achieved unprecedented prosperity with peace. And more people are sharing in that prosperity than ever before. It is no wonder that Ike is leading all political popularity polls. year-for-ye- ar When in Need of Electrical Materials - Lighting Equipment and Electrical Apparatus It Pays Dividends to Call ... GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY A DIVISION OF GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH; BOISE, IDAHO; BUTTE AND BILLINGS, MONTANA; CASPEB WYOMING; DENVEB, COLORADO; AND ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO; OGDEN. UTAH A NEW OFFICE IN GRAND JUNCTION COLO. SERVING THE COLORADO PLATEAU WASHINGTON Economy advocates are planning an intensified drive in the next session of Congress for adoption of more of the Hoover Commission recom- mendations in order to lighten the burden on the American taxpayer and improve the efficiency of the government. It is unofficially estimated that approximately 35 per cent of the Hoover Commission recommenda- tions have been adopted thus far by Congress and the Executive Departments for total potential savings of $532,600,000 annually. But additional recommendations must be made effective to modernize federal operations, eliminate waste and duplication, and get the government out of dangerous competition with private business. Such action will aid in cutting the costs of government operation and thereby increase the chances for getting taxes reduced. A surplus of $3 or $4 billion is essential, Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey says, before he will be willing to consider tax cuts. The platform adopted by the Republican National Convention contains a specific commitment that the party will support the commission's proposals. Here is what the Republican platform . said: EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT. We Pledge to continue our program for improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of the federal government in accordance with the principles set forth in the report of the Hoover Comfar-reachin- g ff SecuSce Utah's mining industry employs one out of every 16 non farm workers. Yet mining pays one out of every five dollars of property tax In the state. This is a measure of the importance of mining to the people of Utah, who benefit from public services such as education, roads and police protection, paid for in part by mine taxes. UTAH MINING ASSOCIATION "From the earth comes an abundant life for all" -- mission. We are unalterably opposed to unwarranted growth of centralized federal power. We shall carry forward the worthy effort of the Kestnbaum Commission on Intergovernmental Affairs to clarify federal relationships and strengthen state and local government. We shall continue to dispense with federal activities wrongfully competing with private enterprise, and take other sound measures to reduce the cost of government. The Democratic platform did not mention the Hoover Commission specifically, but said: The Democratic party pledges that it will return the administration of our national government to a sound, efficient and honest basis . . . Taxpayers, paying billions of dollars each year to their government, demand and must have the highest standards of honesty, integrity and efficiency as a minimum requirement of federal conduct. Action taken thus far involves of the 314 recommendations made by the Commission on Organization of the Executive branch of the Government, popularly known as the Hoover Com112 mission. Many of the recommendations called for administrative action only and, under the direction of the President, the various departments and agencies put them into effect. Congress has passed 30 pieces of legislation, thus providing legal basis for putting into effect 40 recommendations of the commission. VoacaOsUScCx Remember November 6 VOTE! Chief among 1956 legislative accomplishments was enactment of bill to modthe Kennedy-Payn- e ernize obsolete federal budget and accounting procedures. Cost of the commission has been a good Investment for the taxpayer. Potential annual savings of $532,600,000 are already in sight. But the commission performed its task on a Congressional appropriation of less than $2,800,000. Thus it has paid for itself many fold, and adoption of additional proposals will increase the value of the investment. . an "saflAan QDW Wt&SKi CGIlIiEG Gto During every political season, there is a lot of catch phrasing thrown about. Thus, there is talk about the reactionary wing of one party, the moderate wing, the liberal wing, and so on. ' Perhaps it is a good time to examine what is meant by these phrases in ci temporary litical jargon. It very mncl 6 efit the owner of capital invested in land, and penalize the farmer-produce- r. The Senator points out that farmers, along with their customers, are saddled with heavy taxes for foreign aid making it possible for super controls to manipulate American agriculture to make it fit into a plan of worldwide boondoggling. the Seccomplain cotton in about it? liberal wit We hear, he said, retary of Agricuture about the surplus of the U. S. What is done money auto matically. b through U. S. money for Mexico to double its cotton production, appears tha to anyone who lieves in betaj It has been made possible, other people comes a liber; in the socio-- 1 c7w. Harder political sense. On the reverse side of the coin, anybody who reacts against this trend is tagged a reactionary. A case in point is Sen. Wm. Jenner, (R., Ind.), who has perhaps never been called a liberal; often termed a reactionary. Yet the recently published address by Sen. Jenner entitled India increase its production by Egypt to add 2,000,000 50, acres. All this cotton growing is being encouraged by the State Dept, when production has already increased by more than 5,000,000 bales, all of which competes with U. S. cotton. As a result, U. S. cotton exports in 3 years, dropped near 40 while exports by other cotton growing countries rose 46. He goes on to point out that agricultural production over the world is being encouraged with gifts of seed, fertilizers and farm machinery for which the liberal thought. American farmer most a part. pay Condemning American farm He then says, Our governpolicies that have existed over the past 25 years, Sen. Jenner ment is like Penelopd of Greek says, The Purpose of the AmerLegend. Penelope knit by day, ican farm policy is not to get unraveled by night. What little parity for farmers with is knit by our agricultural offsome mythical competing class. icials is quickly unraveled in the That is the Marxian class con- stealth of the night through the flict. Our purpose is to save the State Department American family farm. The family farm is the social basis for So, during this election season our free enterprise, our political It Is Important to keep a level liberty, our biological heritage, keel as charges of reactionary and our military strength. It .and liberal fly through the should not be the purpose of air. There Is a wide gulf beCongress to help corporation tween the true liberal and many liberals on the politifanning. It should not be our purpose to help the city owner cal scene today. Too often the who buys farmland to help him term liberal only denotes a politiavoid taxes. Nearly all the cian eager to be liberal with remedies for farmers ben- - other peoples money. of Onr Farm Policies could rank with some of the writings of Thomas Jefferson as pure exposition of the true tax-payi- ng so-call- ed so-call- ed so-call- ed |