Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-09 | Page 4 | What Readers Think

What Readers Think Th ri k RULES 1 Letters limited to words 2 X a a. Write Wre on an 11 one on side aide of ot the paper pa ps per only b D b write J. J tal talf a and ana P partisan din din- f b barred t b b hi p nonal I a at not 4 a Writers must mut alim true names and ana residential a pen name may maybe maybe be published instead of authors authOr real name 5 6 5 Poetical contributions are not considered 6 6 Views View expressed In III this department are those of ot the contributors and do Xo nut not necessarily reflect the views of t rho 7 1 The department nt cannet be used as U asan asart Uan an art medium S tt This Ihla department department de bee dou not clot more than one contribution a week from the lAe same sam author Flock of Helpless Sheep Editor of the Telegram I amnot amnot am amnot not a disciple of the doctrine of synthetic scarcity to supplant purchasing purchasing purchasing pur pur- chasing power as a means of ot raising rais raising nab rais- ing commodity prices It It- Itis is a poor shift make but but it is better than no remedy at all aU So it Is with regret that I learn of the adverse ruling of ot the supreme court on the administrations administration's administrations administration's administrations administration's ad ad- ministrations ministration's agricultural adjustment adjustment adjustment adjust adjust- ment act Thus one ono more moro attempt to improve the economic status of ot ofa ofa ota a large Jarge and lon suffering long section of ot our citizenry has been annulled because it does not square with the constitution It begins to look ook as if It there ther is no es escape apo for the common people of or this country from the u- u bull pen by the majestic majestic majestic ma ma- jestic supreme court Any president president president dent or or administration that at attempts attempts at- at tempts tempt to break away from the senseless traditions of an obsolete past Is confronted by this hangover hangover hangover hang hang- over of ot horse and buggy da days 8 Vested interests aro are in m the saddIe saddle sad sad- dIe dle dle no matter what party Is elected to power or or what congress wilts wills and they defy the people to extricate themselves from the fortified forti forU- tied fled enclosure They may have only such auch crumbs as as In Injustices Injustices In- In justices be bo borne born by bya a a belabored proletariat crushed beneath the heel of at autocracy In a country of Americas America's v vaunted freedom n 1 In the light of tho the application of the letter of the the- constitution the oft quoted but misleading words from tho the preamble holding hoMing that all aU men are born equal with the right richt to life lite liberty and the pursuit pur pursuit pur suit of at happiness sound rather I hollow and mean meaningless Ingles The people peo- peo peo peo- pIe are arc like Jike a flock of helpless sheep being herded ba back k into the barren stony y pasture from which they thought they had escaped under the leadership of at the new deal C. C S. S WILKINSON