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Show • Page S i x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE SENTINEL, MIDVALE, l i T A H - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - F r i d a y , October 27, 1944 THE MIDVALE SENTINEL Published Every Friday Entered u Second Clau Matter at the Po.storf.ce at Midvale, Utah, under tha Act of March 9, 1878. lOOKING AHEAD tY GEORGE S. BENSON HOWARD C. BARROWS Edito-r and Publi•h•r IVA E. BARROWS, Anodate Edi1or SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year <in advance) ........ $2.00 Advcrti11in~ Ratu Given on Request UTAH SHOULD PROGRESS -HERE IS ONE WAY A study of governmental sal•.rics in Utah pfesents a picture of comparisons which is interest· ing in that it shows the unjust low level at which pay to legislators has been held through the years which have followed since we constitutionallv made ' the pay rate. L<:'t us look back, for instance, to 1896. Let us compare the salaries then paid to our public officials. !lere ar.- some striking examples: Governor, (1896) $:!,000 a year, (19-14) $6,000 a year; st·crctary of state (1896) $2.000 .1 year, (1941) S4.500 a year; state auditor (1896) $1.500, (IY.H) ~.500 a ~·ear (will be $4,00 a year after Jan 1, 19-1.3); state treasurer (1896) $1,000 a year, (1944) ::>3,000 a year (will lw $1.000 a year after Jan 1, 1945); attorney g<'neral (1896) ~1,.500, (1944) $4.500 a year; superint('ndent of public instruction (1896) $1,500, (1944) $4,000; supreme court judges ( 1896) $3,000 a year, (19-14) $5,000 a rear; district court judges (1896) ~-000 a year, (19-14) $4,000 a year; members of both houses of the legislatme (1896) $4.00 per day, (1944) $4.00 per day. There are 3 departments of government-the executive, judiciary and the legislative. The schedule shown above displays the disparity which has continued on down through recent ~ears in the matter of payment to our government officials; it shows the legislative branch inexcusably accorded unfair treatment. The time has arrived to rectify that condition; the time has arrived for l'tah to step into line with a policy of fair treatment to its legislators. That fair treatment should be in the nature of increa,'ied salaries. an advancement to a point that at least allows to lawmakers sufficient income to pay their expenses while serving the state. ------·COMMENDATION GIVEN NSC INSTALLATIONS No loss of manhours through accident. during a several months period lias brought special commendation to 6 9th Service Command installations it was announced today by Major General \Villiam E Shedd. commanding gen- eral. at his headquarters. Fort Douglas. Installations receiving commendation are: Presidio of Monterey, Dibble General hospital, Menlo Park; Pasadena Army Service Forces Regional Hospital; 9th Service Command Rehabilitation Center, Turlock; Signal Corps Photo Center, Beverly Hills, all in California; and Baxter General Hospital, Spokane Washington. Every b1'3nch o! Knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose. -C Buchanan Labor's Lever America's 39 million non-tarm employees last year drew about 90 billion dollars in their pay envelopes -three-titths ot our national income. These people have power to make their country prosperous or plunge it into chaos. They hold the lever and the best thing they can ever do tor this nation is to act tor their own best interests, seriously. American workers will not toil tor a !ew cents a day like Japs; they ntust not. Lowering Labor's living standards always damages American prosperity by just that much. Industry's only hope to compete in all markets, at home and abroad, is on a basis o! manufacturing efficiency. Producing more marketable merchandise per worker per day spells prosperity to employer and employee both. ~laking Jobs Pay Last week in this column I showed how employment might be put at a sa!e, economic level atter the war. Briefly the achievement will cost industry about ~6,000 per job plus some good, sound planning. But this will be only a start. The jobs themselves must pay good wages and interest on Investment. Otherwise they will be temporary jobs, not worth providing, not worth accepting. Only secure jobs are good jobs. Cheap foreign labor has long been a challenge to American efflciency. There was a time when American workers felt directly the competition of immigrants glad to work !or less than an American's living wage. The world was at peace then and immigratiou easy. Those conditions have changed, but cheap foreign labor still exists and it constitutes a serious threat. Indirect Competition Aliens may never under-bid American citizens tor work on U. S. soil again; their competition will be indirect. The hazard is that European and Asiatic manufacturers will use their cheap help to imitate American goods and then sell the rubbish in America and elsewhere. Such a degrading of world markets will mean less business tor American plants and !ewer jobs for American workers. The American workman's answer to such a challenge is easy: Less cosUy merchandise. This does not mean lower wages. It means higher wages. It means maximum yieldmore and better products turned out faster and at less cost. It does not mean long hours. It means more workers on the job fewer hours with American efficiency, more yield per hour per worker. Whoever cuts production bleeds labor. Wages Follow Volume What a workman earns in a year is in proportion to what be produces. An employer's investment in tools increases volume, and the worker's earnings accordingly. High wages and high living standards for workers depend, therefore, on two things: (1) The employer's investment in equipment, previously discussed, and {2) workmen who can and will make that equipment do its best while in use. If management buys tools to make things people wa.Tlt and thus creates jobs, if workers help crash the gates of world markets with prices lower than the drivers of slave labor can quote, doing so with good American things made faster to sell for less, then nothing can stop our prosperity but government itself. Next week, "Moral Courage," which is govcrnment·s part in post-war prosperity. STANDARDIZATION SAVES THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS An annual saving of thousand; of dollars as a result of standal'dization of approximately 12,000 91h Service Colrlmand forms, utilized by headquarters and field instal1ation::o, was predicted today at Fort Douglas, by the command's con· trol division-watch dog of army administrative costs. He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.-Henry Ford F 0 R ... Style, Quality and Long Wear BUY Your CLOT·HES -from- H. F. Rasmussen Merchant Tailor Cleaning - Pressing Alterations - FOOD The Way You Like It I FISHER and BECKERS BEER On Draught JACK'S DeLuxe LUNCH Phone Mid. 298 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. I A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 10 OF ARTICLE VII, AND TO SECTIONS 2, :J, 5 6 and 12 OF ARTICLE Vlll OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF UTAH RELATING TO THE SUPREM.E AND DISTRICT COURTS, HOW COl'<STITUTED, TERMS OF OFFICE, ~UALIFI CATIONS OF JUDGES, JURISDICTION, JUDGES PRO TEMPORE, CHANGE OF JUDICIAL DISTRICTS BY THE LEGISLATURE, SELECTION OF JUDICIARY AND EFFECT ON INCUMBENT JUDGES. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah", two-thirds of all members elected to each of the two houses voting in favor there· of: Section 1. It is proposed to amend Section 10 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State 9f Utah, as follows: Sec. 10 The governor shall nominate. and by and with the consent of the senate, appoint all state and district officers whose offices are established by this constitution, or which may be created by law, and whose avpointment or election is not otherwise provided for. It, during the recess of the senate, a vacancy occurs in any state or district office, the gover~ nor shaU appoint some fit person to discharge the duties thereof un· til the next meeting ot the senate, when he shall nominate some per· son to fill such office. If the office of secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, attorney-general, or superintendent of public in~ struction be vacated by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the governor to fi11 the same by .appointment, and the appointee shall hold his office until his successor shall be elected and qualified as may be by law provided. Section 2. That it is proposed to amend sections 2, 3, 5, 6 and 12 of article VIII of the constitution of the state of Utah, as follows: Sec. 2. The supreme court shall consist o1 five judges, which num· ber may be increased or decreased by the legislature, but no alteration or increase shall have the effect Of removing a judge from office. A majority of the judges con· stituting the court shall be necessary to !orm a quorum or render a decision. If a justice of the supceme court shall be disqualified from sitting in a cause be!ore said court, the remaining judges shall call a district judge to sit with .. them on the hearing of such cause. Every judge of the supreme court shall be at least thirty years o! age, an active member of the bar, in good standing, learned in the law, and a resident of the state ot Utah for the five years next preceding his selection. The judge having the shortest term to serve, not holding his office by selection to fill a vacancy be1ore expiration o.f a regular term, shall be the chief justice, and shall pre~ side at all terms of the supreme court, and in case of his absence, the judge, having in like manner, the next shortest term, sha11 preside in his stead. Sec. 3. Judges of the supreme court and distrjct courts shall be selected for such terms and in such manner as shall be provided by law, provided, however, that selection shall be based solely upon consideration of fitness for office without regard to any partisan political considerations and free from influence of any person whomsoever, anC: provided further that the method of electing such judges in effect when this amendment is adopted shall be followed until changed by law. Sec. 5. The state shall be divided into seven judicial districts, for each of which, at least one judge shall be selectee: as hereinbefore provided. Until otherwise provided by Jaw, a district court at the county seat of each county shall be held at least four times a year. AU civil and criminal business arising in any county, must be tried in such county, unless a change of venue be taken, in such cases as may be provided by law. ARMY OBSERVES F P WEEK 53 TIMES A YEAR Every week is Fire Prevention Week in the army! That today-as the military joined the nation in observance of Fire Prevention week, Oct 8 to 14, was the statement of :tv!ajor S N Johnson, fire prevention and safety branch chief of the 9th Service Command engineer's office at Fort Douglas, in urging all commanding officers of military installations to reveiew their respective programs and launch another year's day-to· day fire prevention campaign. Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them.-The only preparation to take advantage of them, is simple fidelity to what each day brings.-A E Dunning CONSTil'UTIONAL AMENDMEI'fT ARMY HOSPITALS TO USE GRADUATE CADET NURSES United States Cadet Nurse corps graduates, who have taken their senior cadet period in army hospitals and who have applied for commissions in the army nurses corps, may now be employed in military hospitals prior to receiv· ing commissions, it was announced today at the 9th Service Command surgeon's otfice, Fort Doug. las. Appointments will be made only in states where graduates o.f recognized schools of nursing may be employed as trained nurses prior to state board examinations. No.2 A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING TO AMEND SECTION 9, ARTICLE VI, OF THE CONSTITUTim; OF UTAH RELATING TO COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two~thirds of all members elected to each ot the two houses voting i tavor thereof: Section 1. That it is proposed to amend Section 9, Article VI, Constitution o.f the State of Utah, to reaU. Section 9. The members of the Legislature shall receive such compensation and mileage as the Leg· islature may provide, not exceeding $300.00 per year, end ten cents per mile for the d.istance necessar· Hy traveled going to and returning !rom the place of meeting on the most usual route, and they shall receive no other pay or perquisite. Section 2. T h e secretary of state is hereby directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the State of Utah at the next general election in the manner as provided for by Article 23~ Section 1, Constitutiol'l of Utah. Section 3. If adopted by the electors of the state, this amendment shall take eliect the first day of January, 1945. I, E. E. Monson, Secretary of State of tt:e State of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy cf the constitutional amendment proposed by the first special session of the 25th Legislature of 1944, as the same appears of record in my office. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal o! the State of Utah, this lOth day of August, 1944 E. E. MONSON, Secty. of State. AVAILABLE TO GI JOES ARE 560,000 VOLUMES Available at approximately 200 army libraries located throughout the 9th Service Command are 560,000 books. Each judge o( a district court shall be at least twenty-five years of age, an active member of the bar in good standing, learned ip. the law, a resident of the state of Utah three years next preceding his.se~ lection, and shall reside in the district for which he shall be selected. Any district jud;:e -:nay hold a district court in any county at the request of the judge of the district, and, upon a request of the gover .. nor it shall be his duty to do so. Any cause in the district court may be tried by a judge pro tempore, who must be a member o.t the bar, sworn to try the cause, and agreed upon by the parties, or their attorneys of record. Sec. 6. The legislature may change the limits of any judicial district, or increase or decrease the number of districts, or the judges thereof. No alteration or increase shall have the effect of removing a judge from office. In every additional district establish· ed, a judge or judges shall be selected as provided in section 3 of this article. Sec. 12. The judges of the supreme and district courts shall receive at stated times compensation for their services, which shall not be increased or diminished during the time for which they are selected. Section 3. T h e secretary o f state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the elec· tors of the state of Utah at the next general elec+ion in the manner as provided t. T by article 23, section I, Constltution of Utah. Section 4. If adopted by the electors of. the state, this amend~ ment shall take effect the first day of January next succeeding a determjnation by the board of state canvassers of the result of the election designated in Section 3 hereof. I, E. E. Monson, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed by the regular session of the 25th Legislature of 1943, as the sarrie appears of record in my office. In witness whereof, 1 h.-tYe hereunto sd my hand and affb.. ed the great seal of the State of Utah, this lOth day of August, 194<1. E. E. MONSON, Secty. of State. Consult Clerk of the Di~trict the r'"poctive triln&r• lor Court, OT lutther inlortn.!ll· tion. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Henry J. Temi)Ht, Deceased. Creditors will present clainu with vou· cht!n to the undeni&ned at Mid9ale, Utah, on or before the 15th day of December, A. D., 1944. HENRY G. TEMPEST, Admini.t:rator or the estate of Henry J, Tempest:, de- ceased. BEN G. BAGLEY, Attorney for the Administrator. Date of first publication, Oct. 13. 1944. Date of last pub. Nov. 3, 1944. We are coming to see that there should be not stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.-John D .Rockefeller, Jr. X VOTE VES Constitutional Amendment No. 1 November 7 Amendment No. 1 on your ballot, November 7, seeks to remedy Utah's system of selecting Judges for District and Supreme Courts. Its passage empowers the legislature to provide for this selection solely on the basis of fitness for office and without regard for any partisan political consideration. The proposed amendment does not provide any partie· ulor method of selecting judges. It does not provide nor contemplate that judges ore to be appointed. There ore various methods already adopted by several states which provide Utah with satisfactory precedent in establishing its own system. The proposed amendment would leave the choice of methods to the consideration of the legislature. SUPPORT A NON-PARTISAN JUDICIARY FOR UTAH. VOTE "YES" ON AMENDMENT NO. 1 NOVEMBER 7. UTAti BAR ASSOCIATION Subscribe-Don't borrow! Beware Coughs from common colds They Said He Couldn't Do It-But J That Hang On Chronic bronchitis may develop 1f your cough, chest cold, or acute bronchitis is not treated and you ct~.nnot afford to takeachanceWithanymedicine less potent than Creomulston which goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender. inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Creomulsion blends beechwood creosote by special processwith other time tested medicines for cough.;:;. I t contains no narcotics. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to 6ell you a bottle of Creomulsion wtth the understanding you must like the way lt quickly aJln.ys the cough, pertnitting rest and sleep. or you are to h ave your money back. (Adv.) .. STANDARD CLEANING SOLVENT GENERATOR EXCHANGES FUEL PUMP EXCHANGES OIL FILTERS, SPARK PLUGS FAN BELTS, RADIATOR HOSE BRAKE FLUID BRAKE PARTS BATTERIES PROBATE & GUARDIANS~ NOTICES GENERATOR REGULATORS and CUT·OUTS TIRES and TUBES COILS, CONDENSERS POINTS, BRUSHES DISTRIBUTOR CAPS HAND SEPARATOR OIL FLY and ANIMAL SPRAY MIDVALE GARAGE ARNOLD C. TROESTER Q , t« '' ' '*Y•*ti•Y•*•y;t t YiiQaYi t®Mt.litillY•ki* •t •t •I •Wijt•LY.iMitrW•IOflo!iYitOOY•'•IiY•LI HE 0I 0! Check v The Record 1, Get utah out of debt. 2. To Reduce Taxes 1. Utah is out of debt for the first time in history. 2. No general fund levy for 6. A square deal for labor three years 3. Increase of 41 per cent in four years 4. $3,290,000 added in the last biennium 5. State property tax reduced 59 per cent in four years G. Occupational disease com- 7. Aid to industry "1. 3. Increase aid to needy (, Raise teac::hers' salaries 5. Lower property taxes pensation - and others SGoo.ooo,ooo in new in- dustries, 200% in pay rolls THAT'S KEEPING PROMISES! .Vote Democratic Straight RE·ELECT MAW! DEMOCRATIC CENTRA.L COM ITTEE" ) - |