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Show ,j . : ! SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1960 Keep Local Government Strong, Rep. King Urges in Address By taking an active personal interest in community problems, the American people will keep local government vital and strong, and preserve the balance between local government and strong central government. This was emphasized by Rep. David S. King (D-Uta- h) Thurs-day night in an address to a com-munity development conference in Clearfield. "The way to combat the trend toward big government is not to go on beating the federal gov-ernment over the head. The ans-wer is community action," the congressman said. "The Constitution meant American government to be a partnership, and the nation will remain a healthy democracy only as long as the communities and the states keep themselves full and active partners in the solu-tion of public problems. "The federal government is not pushing its way into local prob-lems. It is being drawn into them, where local apathy creates a vacuum in leadership, plan-ning, programming and resource management." The "community develop-ment" concept, Mr. King said, offers an ideal approach by which local governments can regener-ate citizen interest in community i problems and draw local re-sources into the solution of those problems. "By this approach, the citizens become informal partners with, and advisers to, their public of-ficials in drawing up the pro-grams which will solve the local problems, and in carrying out those programs. "By serving on the commun-ity - development committees which this program creates, and thereby working personally with their public officials on the prob-lems which confront the com-munity, the citizens make them-selves active partners in the democratic system under which they live. "This is the secret of success-ful democracy. Regardless of how large the nation becomes, the individual citizen can always make his influence felt through his active participation in com-munity affairs. Because what the community does affects, through the federal - state - community partnership, what the nation does. And, therefore, what the citizen does to help his com-munity affects the general prog-ress and the success of the na-tion," Congressman King ob-served. The Clearfield conference was part of the community develop-ment program sponsored by the University of Utah. Demo Committee Reports on Resources Finds GOP Breaks Western Tradition The following is a report by a Democratic Committee report-ing to the Kennedy-Johnso- n campaign conference on natural resources in the Intermountain West. "In accordance with your re-quest, we have gathered at Salt Lake City to review the prob-lems of natural resources in the intermountain area. We have heard testimony concerning the overall water needs of this area! and we have received valuable - detailed information on a series of particular problems. "We have had testimony on the power needs of these communi-ties. We have reviewed the irri-gation and soil conservation program in these state, from the standpoint of both farmers and ranchers. We have carefully con-sidered problems of municipal water needs and the great and growing menace of stream pol-lution. We have heard testimony on the failures of the present ad-- 5 ministrtaion in respect to min-ing. "We find that the Republican administrtaion has broken with a tradition of western water de-velopment. For a program of an ever expanding West in 20 Democratic years, it has substi-tuted a policy of No New Starts which dries up western resources and locks up the western future. It has twice killed by Presiden-tial veto the Democratic Con-gress' bills to meet the challenge of our polluted rivers. Specifically, we find that the program for each of the last ! Democratic years for Western water development was from I one and one-ha- lf to three times i as great as the Republican pro-- f gram for any equivalent period j since. We find that such progress f as has been made in this eight i year period has been the result ef Democratic legislation over i Republican opposition. We decry : as utterly misleading the 1960 Republican claims for six new I starts. I "We point out that five of the I projects were included in the I public works appropriation bill t passed in 1959 by a Democratic f Congress dedicated to Western i resource development, only to i be vetoed by the Republican j President. We can only judge as completely cynical the Repub-- I lican attempt to claim a sustained i interest for starting in election I year 1960 the identical projects 1 they killed by Presidential veto I in 1959. Similarly we note that the do-- j mestic mining industry is almost literally at death's door, with I still and empty mines in every I western state, and we deplore I the Republican Presidential 5 vetoes in the past two years of both the Lead-Zin- c Bill and the I (Continued on page 10) i , CORRECTION, PLEASE Editor's Note: In the weeks before the general election The Salt Lake Times, in co-operation with the Democratic National Committee, will pub-lish "Correction, Please" in order that the voters may be informed of the true record of Republican Presidential Can-didate Richard M. Nixon. ITEM: Nixon and other Republicans have demanded that Democrats stop their criticism of our pres-ent economic and military pos-ture. To make this demand seem more reasonable, they have dis-torted what Democrats have in fact said, and what they do be-lieve. Eisenhower, for example, told the Republican convention that "We have a cult of pro-fessional pessimists, who taking counsel of their fears, continu-ally mouth the allegation that America has become a second rate military power." Last week Nixon said it was wrong to talk about American economic and military weaknesses "because it Isn't true." CORRECTION: , What is true and what is not true in this debate? Is is not true that Senator Kennedy or any other respon-sible Democrat has ever said, or believes, that the United States today is a "second rate" power, economically or militarily. The Democratic platform de-clares that "over the past 7 years our military power has steadily declined relative to that of the Russians and the Chinese and their satellites. Our military po-sition today is measured in terms of gaps missile gap, space gap, limited war gap." Senator Kennedy, speaking on the Senate floor Feb. 29, 1960, said, "The current debate has too often centered on how our re-talita- ry capacity compares today with that of the Soviets. But the real issue is not how we stand today but tomorrow, not in 1960 but in 1961, 1962 and particu-larly 1963 and thereafter. This year, our mix of forces undoubt-edly is 'far superior.' But it is indisputable that we are today deficient in several areas and that in one of those areas, ballis-tic missiles, our deficiency is likely to take on critical dimen-sions in the near future." In the first Kennedy-Nixo- n debate on September 26, Kennedy repeated what he had said frequently in the preceding weeks: "This is a great country, but (Continued on page 10) TODAY'S EDITORIAL Carl A. Larson Appointed Democrat Campaign Director Carl A. Larson, western re-- ; gional representative of the Democratic National Committee, has been appointed campaign manager for the Democratic state organization. His appointment was announced today by William T. Thurman, Democratic state chairman. "Mr. Larson," the chairman said, "is a life-lon- g Democrat, has served as chairman of a successful Jefferson-Jackso- n Day Dinner, and has been active in other Democratic fund-raisin- g events." In making the appointment, Mr. Thurman said, "The Demo-cratic Party of Utah is very for-tunate to have the services of Mr. Larson to direct the current campaign. His long and success-ful experience and his activity in importan Democratic func-tions and positions will help him to carry out a program leading to victory in November." Mr. Larson's office will be at the Democratic State Headquar-ters, 1204 Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City. The Need for Leadership Abraham Lincoln believed in leadership. When he called together his wartime cabinet to discuss the emancipation procla-mation, he faced a group of men who had been carefully chosen to please and reflect many elements in the country. But Lincoln did not ask them for a compromise solution a halfway measure. "I have gathered you together," he said, "to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matter that I have determined for myself." This nation needs that kind of determined leadership again today and no one needs it worse than the farmers of this state and section. They will not find that kind of leadership in a candidate who once praised Mr. Benson as one of the best Sec-retaries of Agriculture in history who said in 1958 that "The farmer never had it so good" and who has revealed his farm policy to be a collection of old Benson fables under new Nixon labels. The Nixon-Benso- n program, based on a 3 year moving average of previous market prices, can only drive farm income down. And when income drops on the farm it drops in the town and then in the city. Here in Illinois, International Harvester is shutting for varying periods of time this fall, 7 of its 8 plants, throwing 12,400 men out of 'work. (Continued on Page Four) Demo Women Chart Opening Gathering The opening meeting for the year 1960-6- 1 of the Salt Lake County Democratic Women's Study Group will be held Friday October 14 at 1:00 p.m. at the South Sal Lake City Auditorium at 2496 South State Street, ac-cording to Ardelle Miller, club president. The principal speaker will be Bruce Jenkins, Salt Lake City Attorney, who will discuss the Democratic State Platform and discussion will be followed by a question and answer period re-garding the platform. Luncheon will be served under the direction of Mrs. Gwen Wil-cox and Bonnie Anderson, and committee. All Democratic women are urged to attend. |