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Show ia it.wa ordered, from Welch mlnea. v Published by THE INLAND PRINTING COMPANY v . EDI HAJIONAl 10 RIAL ATN33 srai.rufiMoinoM UWH matter February 15, 1911, at Entered as second-clas- s under the Act of March S, 1879. Kaysville, Utah, National Advertising Representative Newspaper Advertising Service 222 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. 179-- 'lo 'bdlsttr resmTS-deplct- ed ECONOMIC 0ft the Beam We HIGHLIGHTS cant help but notice the cellent job of state highway crew during the past couple of months in keeping highways of the state open for heavy travel in this area. We might be wrong, but it ap-- . pears that the job done by highway patrols this year is the finest in history, in view of the fact that consistent cold and stormy weather have bevn a great handicap in keeping the roads safe for motorists. Most of us fail to realize that these men are on call 21 hours of the day and must stay on the job until their work has been completed. It Is their duty WAR TAXES STILL IN EFFECT not only to keep highways but see to it that danopen, Congress should repeal, the war-tim- e excise taxes that apply from skidding are regers to various commoditiesTand also to rail, bus, and plane tickets. duced to a minimum and there- The roster of those who favor and have by prevent injury and death repeal is large, representative, and from highway accidents. includes labor It unions, impressive. manufacturers, retailers, consumer groups, and economists. It was These men, through their unrecently joined by Secretary of Commerce Sawyer. The argument tiring efforts, can well be termed is based on two facts. The Safety Patrol and theyre First, these taxes were strictly war-timemergency meas- doing a good job! ures. They were designed to discourage production of certain kinds of goods at a time when the whole' nation was straining to live up Hooks are standing counselors to the needs of the war effort. The revenue the taxes raised was a and preachers, always at hand and matter. The war has been over for years yet the taxes secondary always disinterested; having this remain on the books. advantage over oral instructors, Second, retailers, manufacturers and others who know what is that they are ready to repeat their going on, say that these taxes definitely harm the sale of affected lesson as often as we please. items. F,or instance, an additional 20 per cent tacked on top of the Chambers. f price of a fur coat is enough to Stop many people from making the When we read the above purchase. Employment is thus adversely affected. And the volume quotation we were reminded of of retail trade, which has so much to do with our prosperity, is the books in our small library, less than it would be otherwise. and its true, books are read The items which are taxed should certainly not be considered and reread, good books that is. As for some of the frivolous luxuries in a nation which desires a high and improving standard of living. Their widespread ownership and use is one of literature of today, we- - are skeptical as to whether once the things which distinguishes this from most other countries. read, we will want to repeat the lesson contained therein. long-favor- R Office Phone 10 ed lor-repea- l e, S GO ALL THE WAY, MR. PRESIDENT , We can go along with that portion of President Trumans tax Monday, in which he stated, I believe we revisions in our tax laws to improve the fairness ... ge delivered jould make some f the tax system. If hed gone a step further and demanded economies in govern-lentdepartments and agencies wed have thrown our best hat the air and acclaimed him as a man trying to balance a stagger-budge- t. , al Instead, he went on to say that this revision should be made bring in some additional revenue, and to strengthen- our econ- - f" so-call- ed He went on to say, If, over the next few years, we hold to the minimum necessary levels and at the same time Jlow policies which contribute to the stable economic growth, can look forward to steady progress toward a balanced A idget Its more than we can ask, at least in an election year, for anomies in government operation, such as are advocated by the oover Bipartisan commission. This able group of statesmen tell that from three to five billion dollars can be saved if certain :onomies are put into effect. Were not economists in any sense of the word, but if the residents tax plan of closing loopholes in the present tax laws in bring in a billion, and if recommended economies are put into ffect to the tune of three to five billion, elementary arithmetic Us us that it wouldnt be long until the budget i much-talked-- of uldjte balanced. Your recommendations of Monday were a step in the right rection, Mr. President. But lets go all the way in balancing the idget, even if a few bunions suffer as a consequence. COAL FROM ENGLAND Here is a bit of news that should be of interest to the coal of the country, and to everyone else. In 1947, we shipped over 675,000 tons of coal to England. But ings seem to have changed remarkably. A press dispatch says it a Boston coal company is awaiting the first shipment of jtish coal in some years. The president of the company said that ners COUNTRY Glasses have an amazing effect on vision especially after they is dominated by the small have been filled and emptied sevgreat city populations. That eral times! GRASS-ROOT- S The government of this nation towns and the rural areas not by the striking fact is developed in an analysis of the United States Congress published in the December issue of The American Press. We cannot be just a little more The analysis shows that 76 out of the 96 Senators 79 per cent we are elected by rural majorities, and that 54 per cent of the dishonorable any more thanJacA cart be just a little dead. Representatives represent more rural counties than urban coun- L. Devers. ties. For the purpose of the study, a rural county was considered to be one in which there is no community with more than 10,000 OTHER EDITORS population. j - . - in more places and more money was needed to care for them . ,, so . ' v, self-respe- ct morale-buildin- half-trut- h - Well folks, putting a finger on the exact spot where the .U.S.A. has a screw loose is my chore for todays illuminating lecture. And before going further and to nip in the bud from any any back-tal- k or striped-pant- s upstart, saying there is no loose screw I ask anybody if we are not in more of a dilemma now than ever before in our history. Never in history has the Govt, prescribed more gargles, lotions, salves and the quacks are still, at work on us. With the medicine we have taken we should have been up and around long ago. Now, the question is to locate the loose screws before the old chaise caves in complete, like when the free, loose and easy livers there in Rome finally burned down the whole town. Nobody then saved even his other shirt, if he had one left by that time. We are getting on thinner and thinner ice as we put more and more of our eggs in one big Govt, basket. When the bottom drops out nobody sits pretty. Our Govt, is already too big and pompous but still bending every effort to take in more territory. But the loose screw. What makesjus such a sucker for Bir Govt. that is the query. Send no box tops just send answers. Thank you, folks Yours with the low down, JO SERRA " horn-rimm- Baird Group Holds Meet Mrs. Irene Higley LAYTON had as her Sunday dinner guest Betty Deal, Lucille Seiler, Dorothy Park, Perry Beaman and Tom Montgomery. Following dinner business meeting wss held. Th guests were the executives of the Baird society, of which Mr. Mont J gomery is president. ' . '' meant the same thing to the Politburo that it did to us. Event roved that nothing could have een more wVong. The Russians new meaning gave democracy which suited them, and thus managed to give interpretations to international agreements which were the exact opposite of what West had intended. This policy is pne of the principal reasons for our failure to meet the Russian on common ground. th. y .' Form- - ..X' dation for Infantile Paralysis had to hold an emergency fund drive last September The polio victims , MARCH Of DIMES of this epidemic and of past epi- demies still require care Other t , funds are needed for research to track down the causes of this dread I , t his Public Message Sponsored By disease Your help will accom-.- V plish these things so give now, - give generously. - - ' j 1 1 asnem ed -- ( much more that the National 3 From Hickory Grove - , , The Low Down na-tio- ns hisory in terms of new polio cases. There were more cases ... - .Happenings That Affect the.:" Every Individual National and International Problems Inseparable From local Welfare. Who invented the electric light? If you "say Edison, youre wrong it was a Russian named Yabloch-koWho devised the telegraph? If you say Morse, youre wrong again it was another Russian Russian nanntk Yakobi.JThe radio? No. it wasnt Marconi it was still another Russian named .Popov. How about the first successful flying machine? If you answer the Wright brothers youll have to go to the bottom of the class a Russian called Mozhaisky flew like a bird near St. Petersburg L'J) years before the Wrights took off at Kitty Hawk. Thfcse, and similar revelations, are disclosed by Edmund Stevens in the Christian Science Monitor. He found them in a Soviet magazine called the Literary Gazette. They show, ho says, one of the ways the Soviet party woos Russian national pride. The move corresponds to a vital need of Russians to vindicate their and destroy the residue of an old sense of inferiority. It. also increases the Russian's confidence in their capacity to catch up with and outstrip the rest of the world technically at the present time. It is, in other words, an example of the g kind of propaganda the government is now leeding the Russian masses. Moreover, it is an examplq of how the Soviet bosses will use any to serve their untruth or ends. A story has been going the rounds concerning a British Communist who went to a meeting of Russian Communist strategists in Moscow, lie was perplexed as to how to argue some ideological point or other in England. Ihe Russians gave his an answer, to which he objected that it wasnt true. The Russians looked at him with amazement and then burst into gales of laughter over such naivete. It is said that the incident was described to the top Russians, including Stalin, and that they burst into laughter also. This story may be apocryphal but it has a point Communist thinking h6lds that the end justifies the use of any means. If a lie will work, it is told. Words are twisted out of all semblance to what they mean to other nations. That Is touched on in General Walter Bedell Smiths revelations of his experiences as Ambassador to Moscow, which appeared serially in the Saturday Evening Post and are now out in book form. He, and other Secretary Marshall,Americans, he says, "Naively as sumed that the word democracy Future"rof a Last year was the worst in the . . . . You might fo through life The small number of Senators who represent predominately without showing your marurban constituencies mostly zfome from states with'very small land riage certificate to prove you areas and concentrated industry, such as Rhode Island and Connecare legally enbondaged hut you I ticut. hadn't better try to go through The study shows further that 42 Senators and 132 Representalife without filing your intives have a weekly newspaper as their home town paper. It then American Fork come tax. said: All of those from rural areas depend on weekly newspapers (Utah) Citizen. as one of their chief barometers of the opinions of their constituents. A good chaperone la an old maid The point is that, in spite of the growth of the cities, this is who never made the first team but s vilstill a grass-rootcountry. The people on the farms, in the a few wants to still lages, and in the small municipalities 'have the dominant voice passes. Shoshoneintercept (Idaho) when it comes to electing the men who make our laws. The future of America is in their hands. Ttelfe 6t&eri& . SAY Kaysville, Davis County, Utah Thurs., Jan. 26; 1950 Page i ex- ( Subscription $2.50 a year in advance. Albert W. Epperson, Editor and Manager Phone 17 Richard 0. Anderson, News Editor J. V. Woolsey, Adv. Mgr., "rk stoppages in American coal mines. There can be no question who is responsible for those stoppages Every one of them was ordered by John L. Lewis," The mine curators want to get the coal out. Certainly, the miners want to keep their earning power; instead of working only three-day- s a week or no days a week. Industries and retail dealers need coal, and their stocks are dangerously low in some cases, llut Mr. Lewis, who is determined to dictate to the coal industry and to the miners, has said no. The losses to the' miners dre huge 1919 shutdowns are estimated to have cost each miner something like $1200. And future losses are incalculable. If coal is unobtainable, of if the source of supply is uncertain, or if the price is too high, users, particularly the big commercial ones, will turn to other fuels with which coal must compete. So jobs are lost and coals rightful place in our economy is umlermin'edT -- i 4 n r t urn , v |