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Show Seen and Heard 'Bound the Town By EDGAR It looks like we will have the room for this column this week so hero goes. . . . The supply house sent u.s four pages of feature fea-ture material this week so that we are liable to have to cut the size of the paper in the future to make up for it. At the present time we are still "up in the air" we think that we are going to have to cut the size of our paper at lea-st part of the time to bring us within our allotted amount of paper, but we haven't heard from headquarters on the matter, so still don't know where we stand. Politics Going into the home stretch the poltical pot begins to boil harder and harder. Some of the stench that you smell now and then is where it has boiled over. I hope that the boys don't get so excited ex-cited in the final run that they boil the pot over too much. . . . The Tribune report indicates that the outlying districts (cow counties) coun-ties) of the state are going Republican. Re-publican. They point out, however, how-ever, that the big vote of the state is in Salt Lake and Weber counties and that these traditionally tradi-tionally have been Democratic strongholds. . . . The Trib's poll of Washington and Iron counties gives the edge to the Republican party, but I am doubtful if they have the right dope so far as this county is concerned. Outside of the Old South, I think Washington Washing-ton county, and St. George in particular, is the strongest hot bed for the Democrats of any place in the country. It is hard for me to believe that this county is going to swing over into the Republican column as indicated by the Trib's poll. I talked to the reporter who was making the poll and he admitted that most of their contacts were made with business and professional groups. This would tend to give the picture pic-ture a Republican hue, since it is well known that these groups favor the Republican side. . . . If the Trib's poll is a true picture, pic-ture, it would seem that Representative Repre-sentative Walter K. Granger was in for tough sledding. He may, however, make up for his loss of votes in the cow counties by going strong in the labor centers. In practically all of the outlying districts dis-tricts the Trib poll showed the Republican candidates as showing up strong. Whether they can get enough support in the outlying districts to offset the votes of the Democrats in the larger centers is the $64 question. ... It looks like many of the votes will be "agin votes" rather than "for votes", especially does this seem to be the case with some voters where Governor Maw is concerned. Enjoys Flying , Taking to the air at the age of 79 is no mean feat, but that is what Mrs. George W. Worthen did Saturday when she was flown from Provo in 3 hours by her grandson, Howard Worthen. Mrs. Worthen had been up in a plane for about 10 minutes seven years ago, but otherwise this was her first experience in this type of traveling. She expressed enjoy ment over the trip. Her grandson, grand-son, LaVon Worthen, returned with Mr. Worthen to Provo and returned Sunday on the bus. Absentee- Voter Ballots The County Clerk's office reports re-ports that there have been 214 ballots mailed to men in the service. Of this number, 129 had been returned. The total of other absentee ballots mailed or called for to date was 43. Of this number num-ber 23 have been returned. . . . Even if the entire number of servicemen who got ballots mailed them back it wouldn't be such a vital factor in the election. One would think to hear all of the noise that has gone up over this question that it was a greater proportion of the votes than the above figures would indicate. This 'X That B. L. Covington dropped in to order a check book last Friday morning and Hazel was surprised to see him, since most of the men of this community were out preparing to get their buck. Hazel asked Bert about it and he replied re-plied that the last time he went hunting "his enthusiasm took him so far he thought he never would get through walking back to camp". ... It looks like the Dixie college has- one of the best lyceum programs outlined out-lined for this year that they have ever presented. The securing of this fine talent has meant that the college has had to obligate itself for a large sum of money. They will need the support of local people in order to meet this. Those who enjoy high-class entertainment enter-tainment will find this lyceum program well worth their time and money. . . . Y"hen I was in California the last time I visited vis-ited the L. A. and Ventura Rotary clubs. When I was introduced in the Ventura club someone called "hello Edgar". When I turned around I saw Dr. Whalen. A number num-ber of the group asked me about the flying program here, as they had boys who took part in that training. At the L. A. club two men asked ne if I knew Dr. Joseph Walker. One said that Dr. Walker was his personal physician and the other said that he knew him personally and had often heard him speak of St. George and the Dixie people. . . . The Dixie-Hurricane football game should be a good one. Hurricane rates the edge on their play to date (they gave the Dixie hoys their only defeat in league play), but anything is apt to happen when these two teams line up. . . . Hunting seems to be spotted with some hunters reporting plenty of deer and others saying "they ain't no such animals". . . . And it still hasn't rained any to speak of on the Arizona Strip country. Stockmen say they never remember a year as dry as this one. Many have already reduced their herds considerably and others are planning on doing so. The Responsibility Is Ours A study of legislative pay in Utah brings out some very interesting information. It reveals that the pay of legislators legis-lators as of today is just at the rate that was received at the turn of the century, almost fifty years ago. The rate of legislative pay as it prevails in the state today was fixed in the Utah Constitution as drawn in 1895. In Article 6, Section Sec-tion 9 of that document the salary sal-ary stipulation for lawmakers in Utah was listed as follows: The members of the legislature shall receive such per diem and mileage as the Legislature may provide not exceeding $4.00 per day and 10c per mile for the distance necessarily nec-essarily traveled going to and returning re-turning from the place of meeting meet-ing on the most usual route, and they shall receive no other pay or perquisite." Thus prevails today the same salary status that was ,in operation oper-ation practically fifty years ago when living costs were so much lower than they are currently, so much lower than they were even in that period immediately preceding pre-ceding the present war. To appreciate ap-preciate the injustice of the present pres-ent legislative pay one but needs to compare costs in terms of the value of the dollar in purchase quality today as compared with that fifty years ago. |