Show Responsibility Rights and Responsibility ELDRED M M. ROYLE chairman of the state industrial commission and the Utah labor relations board emphasized the importance of local interest in solving local problems as the answer to federal encroachment on state rights in an address delivered before 4 the Kiwanis club the other day daj It was a point worth noting and significant significant significant cant not only as it concerns labor relations V problems which Mr Royle was chiefly discussing discussing dis dis- J cussing but all aU local problems Mr Royles Royle's remarks were in connection with the current conflict as to jurisdiction in a Geneva steel plant labor relations case between the federal war labor board and andI I the state labor relations board Although he emphasized it was not the intention of c the state board to interfere with the war effort or seek a conflict with federal authority authority authority author author- ity Mr Royle made clear his feeling that G it is the responsibility of local agencies I of government to try to solve local labor t 1 problems themselves rather than to shift allt all t responsibility onto the federal labor agencies r The Th real issue said Mr Royle Rayle is g whether the local government shall pass t on all aU its problems to Washington He said he believed in more rather than less local self-government self and that he thought that the willingness of local units of government nt to solve their own problems themselves rather t f than running to Washington with every problem problem lem lcm was the answer to the dangerous growth of federal bureaucracy It is an excellent point Mr Royle made State rights is just another name for state responsibility States cannot shift their responsibilities responsibilitIes responsibilities re re- re- re continually onto the federal go government gov gov- v- v pass pass on their problems to Washington Washington Wash Wash- t ington for a solution solution and and then weep over the loss of their state rights The only way we are going to maintain the traditional American American American Amer Amer- ican political system of local government is isto isto isto to maintain local responsibility for solving lo local al problems Weve We've slipped badly in that respect in the last decade or so Weve We've shirked our local responsibilities and as a result have ourselves invited the federal bureaucratic r octopus to extend its tentacles further and further into local affairs o It is high time for or a reversal of that trend And the place to start reversing is right here at home with the acceptance of greater local R responsibility for handling local problems If we prove willing and able to handle our j own affairs we probably wont won't find it too difficult to fight off interference from Wash Wash- ington |