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Show The HELPER JOURNAL (Utah) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, PAGE SIX rights. The Smith bill made some progress in the recent session of Congress. It moved from a subcommittee to the House Judiciary committee where it will receive renewed consideration when ConJan, gress 1S57 ' It Washington News-Lett- flo Comment W er By ROBERT N. TAYLOR Washington Correspondent FORGOTTEN THE SITTING DUCK Higher speed limits up to 70 xnph in Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico have ibeen enacted by various state legislatures during their 1S57 sessions. Doubtless this is a result of widely improv ed and safer highways, since in many cases limits vary with different types of road. It may also portend a generally tougher enforcement policy across the na tion. But, whether for better or for worse one problem at least becomes more acute. This is the hazard of the "sitting duck," the car, truck or bus standing disabled in the travelled highway. A menace to traffic in broad daybelight, such an obstruction comes a death-tra- p after dark unless it is clearly distinguishable from a distance as stationary In a single year more than 1,200 lives have been snuffed out and over 150,000 injured in these sitting duck collisions. Most discouraging is the fact i By James W. Douthat You can be sure that plans 7- - al- ready are under way for a deter mined' effort in the next session been recognized throughout the of Congress to return t o the country for years 10 tne opie a arg! s5ales It would therefor appear that now , of centered the share power legislatures that have me raised speed limits and called it ottler issues also are Whi a day have neglected an impor- the civil rights contro-n- o volved, is of There their job. part reason to believe that better vcrsv. climaxed by sending the roads will mean fewer sitting Federal troops to Little Rock, ducks. But there is every reason has focused nationwide attention to expect that higher speeds will,0" ,he .Question of Federal vs. states' rights give moving traffic still less opThis has been the subject of to obstrucsuch avoid portunity even antecontroversy stormy intions so long as they, remain at a distarce. dating the birth of the Republic. distinguishable Much of the discussion in ConMore and "bigger crashes from this one cause would seem inevitable gress will center around court until such time as these effective- - decisions holding that the Feddisablement flares become man eral Government has the exclusive authority to deal with a datory. That sitting ducks must mean considerable amount of litigation still more blood on the pave- involving labor controversies and in-ta- nt subversion. For example, state laws agains' communistic evitable. ' activity were declared invalid by the Supreme IN USSR STRIKES Court on the ground that the mitted that the sixth of a series Federal Government has "prear Five-Yeof Plans is kaput. In empted" this field. its place comes a new Five Year This same situation prevails Plan that will stretch over seven with respect to built car many labor every passenger that, from il959 to 1965. This abuses.. The states have to sit idly in recent years and most of the years, admissio nof Communist economic py ana wait tor . someone in trucks in the nation carry the lanure coincides with the news Washington to decide whether to basic equipment to provide ef- mat unrest in nea Cnina hasitake action in labor controver fective warning at a half-mi- le touched cj'.a. two major sies which many regard as pure million about a and only range, revolts since the ly local in character. vehicles have been adapted to Hungarian uprising. Legislation is pending in Con give this protection. All that is In once more "the hjpes gress to correct this anomalous needed is an auxiliary switch cf th--dashing faceless million"; for a situation and it will be pushed and wiring that will permit' the iiiuu-inuic lo.eai, jtru.5ncnev & 'vigorously by its advocates. The to flash simfour uinvaiijr urny ue nfipmg io curt- - measures have been introduced ultaneously at the flick of a vince ine wona-wid- e victims finger. the Red conspiracy that slavery is senators k. MfcClellan This secondary use of the the best that Communism ). Can RVTVJ f n ira Tt TVinrmnn1 turn-sign- al system for disable- offer o anytime, anywhere. .u - ment flares is recommended by o.i.; aiiuj uiiieis. j would AssociaBAYONETS DO NOT HELP the American Trucking They prohibit the courts I from rulins that the Federal tions for a'--l commercial vehicles. It should be the prayer of Government has exclusive' iuris- for this appliSpecifications i cation for all vehicles have long every American, north and south, diction of such cases unless this been a part of, the Uniform black and white, that the White! had been specified b Congress of President in enacting the legislation at meeting Traffic Cc:l.;. But nowhere, in no House Eisenhower and the five Southern issue. the rules of do sla.e the single road require such protection, Governors i s productive ; and Thus, under those circum- even though its desirability has that, in spite of the President's stances, the states would be free desire to broaden the discussion to handle such problems along 10 cover praoiems ol school inTwith the Federal Government tegration", the conferees bear and not have legal authority down on the subject urged by the centered in Washington. 'Governor;' Conference, "with-- ) It would be a long step of Federal troops from ward " Bringing Government Arkansas at the earliest possible Back Home," where the people, moment". 'generally speaking, are in a bet- Whether or not Pres. Eisenhow ter position to exercise vigilance er acted within the law in send- - and protect their cherished ing regulars into Little Rock tol enforce integration at Central, High school, will doubtless be voked orders to commanders in argued at great length by Sun- - Atlanta and San Anttonio for of their troops, dry authorities. But the fact of the paratroopers' presence, which It is all very well to affirm Governor Faubus called "the piously that there must be law or there will be anarchy. But where military occupation of Arkansas-,the fact of their herding school interpretation of the law causes children with naked bayonets, such an upheaval in the tradi- and with what Senator Richard tional life and customs of the B. Russell has called "Hitler-lik- e community, as has the desegreconduct," supersedes theories of gation ruling in the South,' there Constitutional law to compound must be patience and understandan error that can not be soon ing. From the Southern viewerased. Yet it is only one of a point, great progress has been series of error9 that began with a made, even in Arkansas and in Federal reversion to the spirit of Little Rock. But bayonets do not the reconstruction days in sending help. a northern judge to rule on the It has been reported that when most explosive problem of our a paratroop officer was asked time. how long the regulars would stay, There is at least the suspicion he replied: "Indefinitely. We that Washington may be coming stayed in Germany for years." to a realizatin of its errors in The Southern Governors have the announcement of Arany Sec- a right to know if theirs is to be retary Brucker that he had re- - "occupied territory". ment is but technologically unnec-sar- circumstantially labor unions in these izations of servants of the Donald R. Richfoerg, one of the words: not weak, altruistic country's most distinguished laof servants of the bor lawyers and once a leading common but . . .. strong, good, figure in President Franklin D. selfish, ambitious agrregations of Roosevelt's New Deal, describes HEY! TEAMSTERS I . present-da- y men seeking to dominate the business and politics of the nation for private profit." COLD and SILVER Ink available at Journal office. . No recommendations, either for or against, with respect to legislation were made by the subcom mittee. This procedure was fol- lowe.d " : order to avoid delay . .i moving ii io uie mu commu- tee. This problem of Federal emption" did not become serious jects formerly governed entirely by the states. The need to end Federal "preemption" is perhaps more apparent in the field of labor relations than in most others. Employment Js essentiaiy a local relationship between local parties living and with other locjd in most respects to iect : r w"" l"c" al legislation was limited largely i- t t io mailers ...i., wnicn were primarily of national concern and for which uniform national regulation was ' required. For the past quarter of a however, Congress has enacted legislation on many sab- - saiote to GRAND COUNTY . . . Land of Scenic Grandeur sub local law. Their employment, however, is becoming increasingly regulated 'from Washington. In the area of labor relations, this Federal trol is fast becoming complete to the exclusion of the states. www ry, rtjr ' 1 ' w mi Grand County stretches across a wide area of a rainbow-colorefantasia on the Colorado Plateau. Here nature displays some of her finest etchings Arches National Monument, Dead Horse Point. Fisher Towers and Castle Valley And beneath this tranquil beauty is found the "magic metal" of ' " the century, uranium is of Grand seat Moab. County, Today, county the nucleus of one of the most active mineral explorations in modern history Here is developing an industry that in shaping the future of the nation and the wind-carve- y, in- OUT-hAGA- d world In Grand County, where much of Utah's economic history will be written, the United States Brewers Foundation works constantly to encourage maintenance of clean, wholesome conditions wherever beer and ale are sold BEER and ALE ROOMS COMPLETELY NEW BATHS SHOWERS FREE GARAGE turn-'-signal- j (D.-Ar- IS&Sh. 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