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Show miiuiimiiiuimiiiiit aiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiUiiiiniHiiKiiumiiii mm MHiiiiiiiililluuililiiiHirmiimMmMW I Wvtm - (&mttm mimta I i Published Every Thursday Office of Publicatioa. Route 2, Box 276 B, Orem, Utah Printed at 57 North First West, Provo, Utah I M. NEFF SMART, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter November 19, 1944 at the postoffice at Orem, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. MEMBER: Utah State Press Association Subscription Rates: 1 One year, strictly in advance $3.00 1 feix Months $2.00 1 CiimNiiiiHiimiiMiHiiiiNmiimiiiiiiimnmnmmiimmmiimmmimmmliimmmmNimiimmimimi IT'S MORE DANGEROUS AT NIGHT As a general rule Orem streets are not well lighted if lighted at all. This situation, while deplorable, is being remedied rem-edied gradually by the Orem City Council. The first step in this direction has been the setting up of a lighting district in the vicinity of Scera. Approval for another lighting district has been secured for the area near the Canyon Road intersection. intersec-tion. This will do much toward greater traffic safety. According to reports by the Orem police department, the hours of darkness are the most dangerous for both motorist and pedestrians. Tlrefore, extreme caution is necessary on the part of those traveling at night, whether by car or afoot. Despite the fact that more than half of the total number of hours are daylight, and that traffic is lighter between midnight mid-night and dawn, the night-time mileage death-rate univer sally continues to exceed me day torn rate, year after year. Recognizing the fact that decreased visibility demands decreased speed, it is most important for motorists to resist the temptation to speed at night, even though traffic may be light. Until Orem streets are adequately lighted every citizen can make for greater traffic safety by making it his individual responsibility to travel intelligently at night. THE CRISIS : WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT By Norm.n Cousins There is no argument about the fact that our security is threatened ; no argument about the dangerous deterioration deter-ioration in the world picture since the end of the war; no argument about the critical need for Amerrica to devise de-vise adequate protection for herself and her institutions. institu-tions. The main 'argument, as usual, is of the what-to-dor about-it variety. There are those who believe that power makes greatness. They call for a supreme harnessing of the nation's force, with all that it involves : assembling assemb-ling our atomic, air, naval and military might for any contingency. The problem being what it is and the times being what they are, we doubt whether you can find security or greatness by looking for it down a gun barrel. American security today deiends primarily not upon its own physical strength but on the creation and operation oper-ation of a world security structure with adequate powers to make and enforce world law. The nature of the new warfare is such that the aggressor ag-gressor is not only heavily favored, but in many respects res-pects decisively favored. Some military experts have made the telling observation that the ability to retaliate in modern warfare, even by a nation which enjoyed superior sup-erior force, is no longer assured. But even if retaliation is possible, it is hardly an exhilerating thought to know that after forty millions of our own citizens are killed in the first wave of an attack, we can probably kill sixty millions of the tnemy! This does not mean that America should throw away her weapons under a see-no-evil, know-no-evil placid and pacificist policy. Unilateralism in respect to disarmament is as dangerous as any other form of unlateralism. All it does mean is that if the United Nations is our first line of defense, as our President has stated, then the least we can do is to act as though we actually believed it. Did we believe it at San Francisco when we, along with the Russians, insisted on the veto. Did we believe it when we virtually set aside the charter for military unilateralism uni-lateralism in the Pacific? Did we believe it when we said we were going into Greece with men and arms because the U. N. lacked the power to deal with the problem not only without saying that we would be willing for our part to give theU. N. the power it would need, but by acting first, then telling the U. N. about it. The fact of the matter is that neither this government govern-ment nor Soviet Russia hias taken the United Nations seriously. Both nations are trying to find security through unilateral power; not through attempting to define any logical limits to the competition between the two countries for the mutual benefit of both. What about the Russians? Would they go along with a proposal to give the United Nations the powers of a limited world government operating in the area of common security? Right now for America, however, the important question is what we ourselves are willing to do. Would we be willing to be part of such a vastly strengthened U. N? Until we decide, we cannot in good grace speculate on what others would be willing to do. Not until we ourselves make that decision will we be able to come to grips with the problem of getting the Russians to come along. We must make the proposals for world law in utmost good faith. Naturally, until such time as such a strengthened world organization comes into being, America cannot afford af-ford to deprive itself even of the hypothetical security offered by military stockpiling. But let us at least make no mistake in our own thinking about where reasonable security resides, or about the fact that a first line of defense de-fense necessarily comes first. From where I sit ... Joe Marsh. How to Live Longer Sor. eone asked Papny Miller last week how he stayed so spry at ninety. Pappy told him: "Wall, sir when I work, I work hard. When I set, I set loose. When I thirk, I go to sleep." According to Doc Hollister, that form.ila isn't far amiss. "Ilard work," says Doc, "never wore out anyone before his time, providing he knew how and when to relax." Doc himself works overtime, wLh his daytime patients at the ofiice, and his evening calls. And when he gets home he takes it easy with a mellow glass of beer and chats with the missus until it's time to go to bed. From where I sit, relaxing is a One art especially in these tense, fast-moving times. And there's nothing like a temperate glass of beer enjoyed with pleasant companyto com-panyto restore that easy frame of mind that one needs after a hard day's work. (A Record Vacation Season ' i HOW FA ft. ' jmy. 2o, ooo, ooOo (MZ? CARS STATIOU WA&M$9 , JALPYSfTUAlLEiaS,ETC j&affikw A 6, OOO, ooo. SpM WATOMISTS, RESORTEBS. .fHvf ig&N RU&3ER-TII3E GYPSIES, m Six . Sm? W tilUOH DOLLARS sin& ,mm ra hot do&s, TOURIST CABlNf, MT!US , &ALlfcte, OIL, Ft at niggs, Postal cam , api nm9 SOUVENIRS iET N,w,,i,1 HILLGREST Vanese Woffinden Phone 0553 Rl Dr. S. J. Francis of Santa Anna, California atended services serv-ices in the ward on Sunday. He was visiting with the David Martin family. The new son of Mr. and Mrs. George Tucker was given the name of Stephen Sidney on Sunday. Sun-day. Mr. and Mrs. Lavar Oliverr had their small daughter blessed bless-ed on Sunday and given the name of usan Elaine. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Clark and children visited in the ward on Sunday. They are former resid ents of the ward and are moving to a forty acre farm near Spring Lake. The Primary is holding their Summer Festival in Thursday on the church lawn. David Martin, Jr. has arrived at the Navy base in San Diego for training. Mrs. James Slade from Drap er was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woffinden, The boys of the Aaronic priesthood are going on an outing out-ing to Trial Lake from August 13 to 17. They will be chaperoned chaperon-ed by Mr, and Mrs. Howard Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Row land, M. J. Hill and Floyd John son. Miss Joan Lewis was hostess at a slumber party at her home on Thursday evening. Her guests were schoolmates at Lincoln high school. Mr. and Mrs. Norval Ander son and sons, Val and Vance spent Wednesday In Salt Lake City. They also visited in Oakley, Oak-ley, Utah with Mrs. Anderson's parents and enjoyed a camping trip up Weber Canyon. Mrs. Donna Gordon went to the MIA home with the Bee Hive girls, as their chaperon. The girls who sepnt the weekend week-end in the canyon were Dorothy Bats, Virginia Oliphane, Lucille Woffinden, Carol Oliver, Donna Hartley. Lois Mntt. Lola Mason. Deanna Barnum and Joan Gor don. The infant son of Mr. and Leo G. Rowley was blessed by his father and given the name Lynn Russell Rowley at Sacrament Sacra-ment meeting in the Provo 12th Ward on Sunday. The grandparents grand-parents of the child, Mr. and Mrs. David Rowley, Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Billings were present. The baby's father is a former resident of Orem. j PRECISION BUILT HOMES $3310 to $5750 Down payments as low as $750 5 ijHome complete in every dell de-ll tail. Ready for occupancy. SEE BILL BAKER ;i 16th South and Main Orem 1-2 Mile West of U.S. 91 A27. C'ipt'i'sht, 1948. Unif.i Stales Brewers Foundation a rAvotiri of MIN ACROSS Till NATION colorfully styled for casual 1 11 When you slip into a sport shirt and a pair of slacks complete your comfort picture with free-fitting self-supporting Phoenix Ev-R-Ups. For rugged rug-ged craftsmanship, color harmony har-mony and genuine sock pleasuretry pleas-uretry Phoenix. 10 to 13. REO. U. S. PAT. OFF. NORM'S CLOTHES SHOP "Men's and Boys' Apparel" Phone 1578 182 WEST Center PROVO. UTAH Utah Foundation Answers Questions On Utah Sales Tax Why the sales tax was adopted adopt-ed in Utah, and what has become be-come of he $85,000,000 in sales and use taxes collected since en actment of the tax in 1933 are detailed de-tailed in a report released August Aug-ust 1 by Utah Foundation, the non-profit tax research organiz ation. The report chronicles the history of the sales tax from the time it was enacted in 1933 as an "Emergency Revenue Act" with a tax rate of three-fourths of one per cent, until he fiscal year just closed when sales tax revenues reached the all-time high of $12,639,724. This was $1,483,967 or 13 per cent more than in the fiscal year 1947. Sales tax collections in 1934, the first year of the 2 per cent tax, totaled $1,708,955, rising to a pre-war peak of $4,514,244 in 1941. For the fiscal year 1947, the sales and use tax produced 28 per cent of total Utah State tax revenues. Utah derives a smaller percentage of total state taxes from the sales and use tax than do 16 of the 22 other states which have a sales tax. West Virginia gets 47 percent of total state taxes from the sales tax Michigan, 45 per cent and Missouri and Washington, 42 per cent. The sales tax was adopted in Utah in 1933 to meet a crisis in public finances arising from the heavy property tax delinquency which accompanied the depress ion years. , Until 1939, sales tax revenues were divided by the Utah leg islature among the schools, the state general fund, the public re lief and welfare. The 1939, 1941 and 1943 legislatures earmarked all sales tax revenues for wel fare purposes. The 1945 and 19-47 19-47 legislatures brought the sales tax back under legislative control, again dividing the rev enues among the state general fund, state building fund and welfare. Part of the sales tax placed in the general fund was appropriatad to the schools by the 1945 legislature. Out of the total of $85 million that the sales tax has produced, $59.2 million has gone directly NOTICE OF A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE OREM DAIRY PRODUCTS COMPANY. Please take notice that on Friday, August 6, 1948 at 8 o'clock p.m. at the office of the OREM DAIRY PRODUCTS COMPANY in Orem City, Utah County, State of Utah, there will be held a meeting ot the stockholders of said company. The purpose of this meeting is to consider and vote upon a proposition to amend the articles of incorporation of said company com-pany as follows, to-wit: (a) To amend Article I to read as follows: The name of said corporation heretofore formed and created is GENEVA HAIRY COMPANY. Also to amend the Caption or name of said corporation corpor-ation as the same appears at the top of the Articles of Incorporation Incorpor-ation of said company to read as follows: "Articles of Incorporation Incorporat-ion of the Geneva Dairy Company." Com-pany." (b) To repeal any and all articles art-icles in conflict with said amendments. amend-ments. Signed this 21st day of July A. D., 1948, By order of the Board of Dir ectors of the Orem Dairy Products Pro-ducts Company, a corporation. By Storm McDonald President Merrill N. Warnick Secretary. Pub. July 22-29, Aug. 5. WHEN IN SALT LAKE BE SURE to welfare assistance and administration, admin-istration, $9-2 million to the general gen-eral fund, $3.6 million to welfare wel-fare institutions, $700,000 to the Health department, 34.2 million to state building funds,, $1.4 million to public schools (not counting general fund approp riation to the schools made pos sible by sales tax revenue), and $1.3 million to the state tax commission for costs of collect ing the tax. The remaining $5.4 million is included in the present pres-ent balance of the Emergency Relief reserve fund. In 10 of the 23 states which levy a sales tax, the entire revenue rev-enue is placed in the general fund of the state. 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