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Show ' ' ' . ' ' Page Four - FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1959 THE SALT LAKE TIMES House Speaker Broaches Plan For 1960 Session and that they will definitely take a reduction in services rather than a tax increase. "They are depending on us as their elected representatives to do something about it. How much money should be spent for state government is entirely a matter for the legislature to decide. Ex-cessive spending cannot be put on a Governor or anyone else. "I have a plan to propose to you," he told listeners and then proceeded to suggest an amend-ment to the appropriation bill under wheh only 44 per cent of the biennial budget can be spent without further legislative ac-tion. This, of course, calls for a special session when the 44 per cent is spent. "I know every objection in ad-vance that will be offered to this plan of procedure. One of the loudest will be the exhorbitant cost of a special session of the Legislature. I have no hesitation to spend a few thousand to save ill; J T (Continued from Page 1) Members, "For many years I have watched with dismay the mushrooming cost of our state government. In my opinion it has been out of proportion with the increase we should expect, even taking into consideration the inflationary trends and grow-ing state. "A growing economy has in-creased our tax income, but the administrative costs have in-creased even faster, so that each legislative session we come more to the realization that we must do something about it. Our capi-tal improvements are going far-ther and farther behind, our re-serves are being depleted and now we are being faced with demands for increased taxes and bonded indebtedness. "It was in my previous term as speaker that we set aside the funds which would pay off the state's outstanding bonds plus interest to maturity, and I could the majority of taxpayers will agree with me. The Legislature costs less than 1 per cent of the cost of state government, and is not fulfilling its proper posi-- ! tion in the check and balance of state government. The speaker then went on to compare the outmoded practice of attempting to plan progress and improvements in a large business for a period of over two years. "Big business now plans on even a month to month sched-ule," he said. iOt have felt better to have paid ;ff the mortgage on my own ome. I still have the same ab-errance for bonded indebted-less- , except for the revenue bond ariety. The fact that things may ost more in the future doesn't way me. "To take the easy way out by ncreasing taxes is also just as objectionable. "If there's one thing I'm very certain about, it is that the vast majority of the taxpayers of the state are extremely tax conscious 177!" THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal New (earlCSS Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah I I . Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake Gty as second iBOependent class piatter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, Newspaper ?ll Soutfa Wej.t Tcmple Telephone EM 64 I GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Subscription Price 13.00 per year in advance "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 38 Number 42 Democrats Come Under Fire (Continued from Page 1) proposal. The governor merely brushed them off as "ridiculous and impracical." Nor did the governor come up with any new suggestions as to how the financial puzzle which has stalled the House might be resolved. He merely repeated statements made before to the effect that the only way to meet the situation was the Clyde-Republic- an way which the Republican controlled Senate had passed. Weber County Happy As 4-Ye- ar College Clears Utah House A jubilant delegation from Weber County watched an "edu-cation minded" House of Repre-sentatives roll up a large ma-jority vote in favor of extending Weber College from a two to a four year college. The Senate had already passed the measure and final decision now rests with Gov. George D. Clyde, who is expected to sign the bill. Preceded by an informative and thorough presentation of the case for Weber College by Pres. William P. Miller, the measure garnered 55 ayes with only 7 nays. Four representatives were absent and not voting. Moving tribute was paid dur-ing an "explanation of vote" to Rep. Aaron W. Tracy (D-Web- er) retired educator now serving his first term in the . 1 Legislature. Rep. Carl H. Taylor (D-Web- er) in a request to explain his vote I offered an affirmative ballot as a personal tribute to the man who, "years ago, stood m the old ! assembly hall and predicted this day. He said Weber would move College into new and larger i quarters and that Weber College would be a four year college." Deeply moved at what he con-sidered the signal honor of serv-ing, years later, beside the vet-eran educator, Rep. Taylor told press representatives, "I attend-ed Weber in 1933. Aaron Tracy stood on the stage and made the statement that the campus would become too small and that an j enlarged campus must soon be acquired. He also stated that Weber College would become a four year college. We all giggled and said, 'Aaron's having a pipe dream.' Little did I dream that h'i and I would be sitting in the Legislature together in 1959, trying to get this very thing done." If all the cars in the country were put end to end, 90 per cent of the drivers would pull out to pass the car ahead. Day of Reckoning Arrives Already dubbed "spenders" the Democratically controlled Utah State House of Representatives came into session with the label already printed no matter what they did. Adequate financing . which should have provided for the growth and progress in the state has been by-pass- ed and side-stepped for all the years of the past Republican controlled sessions. Reserves have been dipped into and exhausted under the misleading banner of "conservative spending," and "no tax increases." The lowliest housewife could have predicted a day of reck- - ; oning. The funds set aside for a rainy day were spent, and the rainy day was postponed until the proper goat stood tethered out in the weather. Then the bottom fell out. ' These are things to remember when the hue and cry begins anew. The sad thing is that usually Democrats have to raise mnnev to renlace that snent bv Republicans, and have to soend j r r - - -- y t , r money to take care of the items neglected by Republicans. You'll have to give them that, Democrats may not be very sharp poli-ticians, but they're pretty good providers. Sen. Moss Sponsors Bill to Aid U. S. Family Farmer A bill to make it easier for family size farmers to borrow at low interest rates was pre-sented to the U. S. Senate this week with Sen. Frank E. Moss as a co-spons- or. The measure proposes to chang The measure proposes changes in existing farm statutes to re-duce interest rates and increase the amounts federal farm agen-cies will have available to lend. It also directs the Secretary of Agriculture to reactivate the program of assisting farmers and creditors with voluntary debt adjustment; and revives the policy of adjusting repayment schedules to the borrower's net earnings. The bill is almost identical with one introduced last session. It was referred to the Depart-ment of Agriculture for review, and received an unfavorable re-port. It did not come to a vote in the Senate. It is expected, how-ever, to get further along the legislative process this session. "If we are interested in main-taining conditions that make it possible to operate family-size- d farms this type of credit must be modernized. I am aware of the difference of opinion among students of agriculture. Some feel that the practical approach is to recognize that the small farmer is doomed. But I believe that the credit policies of the government should be adjusted to allow the family farmer to compete," he said. Known as the Family Farm Yardstick Credit Act of 1959, the bill would amend the Bank-head-Jon- es Farm Tenant Act, the Water Facilities Loan Act, the Emergency and Livestock Loans Act, and the special emer-gency loan act of 1954. Senator Moss noted that the new bill does not change the existing requirement that a bor-rower leave the program when he can obtain other commercial credit at not to exceed 5 percent, nor does it change the require-ment that a potential borrower must exhaust all other sources before being eligible for the gov-ernment program. Reduction of interest charged on farm operating loans from 5 1 to 3 per cent is proposed, as is reduction of interest paid to in-sured private lenders from 4 to 3 per cent. The latter means government absorbtion of the cost of insurance risk and ad-ministration costs which are now covered by an additional 1 per cetn charged the borower. The bill raises the permissible maximum of any one loan from $10,000 to $35,000, and the per-missible size of a borrower's total indebtedness from $20,000 to $50,000. The maximum per-missible amount of water facility loans to cooperatives, irrigation districts and municipalities is raised from $250,000 to $1,-000,0- 00. Utahns have participated ex-tensively in the loan programs covered by the bill. For example in one of five categories, "operat-ing loans," Utah farmers have borrowed some $12,919,000 be-fore 1946. As of June 30, 1058, $9,047,000 has been repaid ac-cording to figures of the Farm-ers Home Administration. America's Destiny The United States cannot and will not destroy the Soviet Union to stop Russian expansion, nor coerce other nations into an American empire to oppose it. But we can and should play an important, indeed leading part in maintaining a strong, secure and progressive free world society in which the nations can develop in their own way. In doing this we have an invaluable aid. The Soviet system is as much a threat to the other nations as it is to us. Furthermore, by some fortunate folly the Russian leaders from time to time force the free nations to see clearly that the things they have in common are far greater than the things that drive them apart. At the end of World War II the United Nations followed the League of Nations as the second attempt to set up an inter-national organization to maintain peace but Russian policy rob-bed it of effectiveness as American isolation crippled the League. Still, the United Nations renders the valuable service of bringing together in one body the adherents of the two conflict-ing principles of world organization the free and voluntary world order and the closed and coerced world order. In so doing the United Nations maintains contact across the gap. So long as the communists believe they can influence world opinion, the United Nations will embrace both. But so long as the conflict exists, the United Nations, by itself, will be inade-quate to reinforce the bonds between the free nations. Outside of, but in harmony with, the United Nations, lies the task of strengthening and bringing together for common purpose all the nations who seek security for an environment of freedom and opportunity to develop in their own way the ma-terial, intellectual and spiritual interests of their people. , The purpose of this task goes far beyond a drawing to- - gether one group to oppose the ambitions of another. 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