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Show ;1Le .kfe- yy it socialism out of the hat. Everybody Every-body equal and freedom for all. What a picture you can paint. But more power in the hands of a few isn't modern. If you give the government the right to kill my enemy, you've given it the right to kill me. Because everything every-thing is equal doesn't take away the selfishness of wanting more. And I don't see where anybody owes anybody else a living." By David Lloyd Staff. Writer "I have no objections to students stu-dents whitewashing a "U" downtown down-town again next year," said Salt Lake City Mayor J. Bracken Brack-en Lee, Thursday in an interview. inter-view. He added, "It would be better if the students put it on with brushes instead of throwing the whitewash on with buckets." They needed to let it dry also before people crossed over it. "We ought to permit certain things within reason," he said. No Way to Handle Liquor When asked about "liquor by the drink" the Mayor said: "I don't think there is any good way you can handle whiskey. I'm convinced that government shouldn't sell whiskey, it should handle the laws and regulations controlling it. We've tried prohibition, pro-hibition, and that doesn't work, so why wouldn't it be better to permit restaurants to sell by the drink under strict regulation by government who would enforce the rules. When a man buys a bottle, he drinks much more at one time than he would by the drink. It doesn't make much sense to sell a man a bottle and not sell him a drink." The Mayor said he wouldn't oppose selling 3.2 beer to young people at the age of 19. How ever, he wouldn't actively go out and campaign for such a program. pro-gram. Lee to Debate Major J. Bracken Lee will debate de-bate opposite Utah State Senate President Oscar McKonkie, Jr. today in Room 108 at 11 p.m. at the Moot Court on resolved: Constitution Amendments Should Pass. Mayor Lee said, "When they talk of changing the constitution to make it better, they lose sight of, and don't point out that, this government is founded on granting grant-ing the extreme amount of freedom free-dom under law. Where's it going to help the people? I can see where it can help the Governor and the legislators. But where does it help the people? I spent two terms in the Governor's office, of-fice, and I have a fear of government. gov-ernment. I know people. Greed is in man's heart. You can't take away the policeman that watches the Governor and say to Rampton 'do as you please.' I wouldn't want that to happen to me." Good Government When questioned about creeping creep-ing socialism, Mayor Lee answered: an-swered: "We've had this society soci-ety and government for about 200 years, and now we've got to "modernize it." So we go back into the dark ages and pull |