Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-18 | Page 4 | What Readers Think

I What Readers i Think RULES 1 Letters Letter limited to words 2 2 5 a Write Writ en on ono mo side of t Ui paper pa per only oay b writ re 1 1 1 3 S. r a. a OU racial ra and partisan dla- dla barred b personal aspersions as as- not 4 a Writers roust mutt sign true trus names namu and residential Add addresses r. r u a p pen n name earns may roar b. b published of authors author's rea real name a 3 Poetical contributions u ar TS r We riot cot considered 6 6 Views expressed Sn department depa are ar the moss of ot the Uie contributors contributor and da do not oot necessarily reflect teet th the of ot ft llIe 7 Tot department cannot Ot be e used d as asan an all n advertising medium d 8 8 5 Ti ThIs Tola da de department de- de pertinent joe dots not cot Ourt more than on one contribution a week from the me same me author Decentralization Not No Needed eded Editor of ot The Tho Telegram Reference your note noto under my attempt to criticise the substitution of ot 10 or 12 little capitals of the nation for the work which should bo be done In each of our 48 state capitals My belief is that socialist bureaus at Washington filled with Mellon appointees havo have very positive pod pod- tive tivo designs not stated by them to create 10 or 12 places to use as capitals of that many provinces of ofa ofa a a. national government never contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- by any of the states Considerable proof Is found In Inthe Inthe Inthe the following quotations from Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator These avid bureaucrats bureaucrats bu bu- bu- bu used to call tho the new commerce corn com COIn I merce building Hoovers Foll Folly because be bc- cause causo it was so big But they swiftly overran and out outgrew rew it It has slopped over into buildings in the capital alone lono It Is a a. positive positive positive tive inspiration for the It is 4 bon for the bureaucrats It is not so pleasant for the tho taxpayers tax taX- payers 5 The national constitution article 4 sections 1 and 2 requires that congressional regulations of public acts act in the several states shall be uniform in all of ot them by general laws But there is no power in the national executive department to operate state matters unless some at state refuses to obey national con con- s regulation n There is no occasion lon whatever for decentralization of the national government gov gov- The need is for the several sev sev- eral oral states to renew and maintain their decentralization of local government gov- gov government gay gov eminent authority Tho ho need for congressional prescrIption prescription proscription pre pro and regulation of at public acts act in the several states has been apparent apparent forat for at least 20 years Old fogies have hae prevented that and sided with the socialists Congress must be pledged and elected to exercise Its It discretionary authority and make mako tho the several states operate public acts uniformly Congress must regulate the subjects subjects sub sub- of taxation making homes bomes free from taxation and the legal procedure so that state lines cannot be used as barriers to justice The county governments should collect all aU taxes faxes for local state and national costs cost and have a basic levy uniform for elI all with school attendance and per per- capita and ar area a allotments according to congressional law Instead of national executive tive tiva orders order J. J W JW W JENKINS JENKIN