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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, MARCH Want To Cut Your Federal Taxes? Do You The Uintah Basin Record PUBLISHED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK Something For Nothing Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Duchesne, Utah IRENE FRETWELL C. L. FRETWELL, $3.00 - 1 Editor RATES SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 $2.00 - 6 Months Year - 3 Months Payable In Advance Heres The Answer tion and the checking was done by taking the name of each of (Editors Note: DeWitt Emery the individuals who make up BY DE WITT EMERY is president of the National Small Business Mens Association). One of the principal reasons . this country is where it is day on the road to the left, the road away from constitutional government and freedom of enterprise, is that the people who have the most at stake arent enough interested to go to the polls and vote their convictions. The consequence of this indifference, or whatever you want to call it, is that election after election has been won, or lost whichever you prefer, by default. Heres the voting record for the last five presidential elections as compiled by American Elections. In 1932 only 56 of the qualified voters voted; in 1936 only 63 voted; in 1940 only 66 voted; in 1944 57 and in 1948 voted only 51 voted. only H ere. In The magazine, Ohio, was appalled, as I am and as you undoubtedly will be, at this voting record and decided to make a survey to sec what it could find out. Summit County, Ohio, which includes Akron, was selected for the survey and because of the magnitude of the job certain middle class groups were chosen to be checked. These groups were Automobile Dealers, Chamber of Commerce Members, Clergymen, Independent Grocers, Doctors, Members of Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, Independent Druggists and School Teachers. The magazine stated that It was decided to make a test of the voting records of some middle class groups in Akron and Summit County because this metropolitan Ohio city has a very active C.I.O. Political Action Committee; it has a very active, and smooth running Republican organization and a Democratic organization split by a' factional feud. Combined, all these factors seemed to indicate, a higher degree of political interest than in any other city in the State. The survey was made following the 1948 presidential elcc- to- the selected groups and checking these names against the official records of the Summit County Board of Elections. These records do not show how anyone voted, but they do list the names of everyone who did vote. In some instances the same individual was a member of more than one of the groups being checked and in these cases he was checked only once and credited to the group in which his greater interest lay. For example, when the same person was both an Automobile Dealer and a Rotarian he was included in the survey only as an Automobile Dealer on the assumption that he was more interested in the business from which he makes his living than he is in his membership in Rotary, or in any club for that matter. Heres what the survey disclosed: Automobile Dealers 21 not registered. Chamber of Commerce Mem19.35 75.43 voted bers not registered. 67.35 voted Clergymen not registered. 2712 63 Independent Grocers 32 not registered. voted 79.42 voted Doctors not registered. 15.82 Rotary and Kiwanis Members 9.96 not 85.9 voted registered. Independent Druggists 23.53 not 72.33 voted registered. 87.49 School Teachers 6.10 not registered. voted Here In Ohio points out that The rise into power of the Mussolinis, the Hitlers and other dictators was brought about by the apathy and indifference of the middle class people. It cant happen here! Why cant it? If the very people who have the greatest stake in our American way of working and living together arent enough interested to vote to protect their heritage of freedom and to preserve constitutional government and American institutions, why cant it happen here? Id say it was already well on its voted drawing money out of your bank account without ever putting any in. The bank doesnt play, that way. This is also true of Federal financEvery dollar spent must ing. sooner or later be collected in the form of taxes. Many of these taxes are hidden, such as the $2.44 you pay on a $30 radio, or the 62 cents on the average alarm clock. These are in addition to the direct taxes of which the average citizen is painfully aware. Tax money is necessary to run our government. But all too much of it is wasted by inefficiency, duplication of effort, overlapping of Federal agencies or appropriations for services to pressure groups. Heretofore, no one has known how much these government services cost us through waste and inefficiency. But some surprising facts have been revealed by the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Govbiernment. This twelve-maCommission was created partisan by Congress with the approval of the President. At the suggestion of Mr. Truman, former President Hoover was made its Chairman. The Army, Navy, and Air Force asked for $30 billions of appropriations after being told that $15 billions was all the Nation could afford. The Army applied for 829,-00- 0 tropical uniforms at $129 apiece and homes for military personnel in Alaska at $58,000 apiece. Yet every dollar spent in such activities comes out of your pocket in the form of taxes. Fifty Federal agencies jostle each other collecting statistics at an annual cost to you, the taxpayer, of $43,000,000. Many of the statistics are of use only to small groups, or collect dust in government files. The Corps of Army Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation are expert at selling the something for nothing idea to the American Underestimation of costs public. to be their specialty. The appears original price tag put on the Colorado-Bi- g Thomson project was $44 millions. Its final cost was Such $131,800,000. discrepancies, the Commission wryly notes, hardly can be explained by increases in labor and material costs. You may obtain information about how you can fight waste and inefficiency in our government by writing to the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, 1421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 2, Penna. Also write your n, 1950 Permanent Oil For Automobile Looms As Distinct Possibility but is Remember all the talk a while back about oil that never needed to be changed during the lifetime of a car? You still cannot buy it, but the talk is growing louder. Even the colleges are beginning to believe it practical. In fact Prof. Earl T. McBee, head of the department of chemistry at Purdue University, went on record before- the New York Section of the American Chemical Society at its last meeting, with the flat prediction that automobiles which need never change their oil may soon be, American high thronging a paler more active. ofi other elements lfc sulfur, silicon, lcJe..sPtar.3 Most met in fluorine. Nevertheless for war service ' toe the mark. In faJ istry was put to ui difficult problems cot - with the new atomic ways. He based his prediction on the remarkable properties of certain fluorine compounds, some of which are still on the secret list. Fluorine has long been a laboratory curiosity and was a very un,ruly element until a few years ago. In its pure form it is the most active element known. It resembles chlorine, fluorine and try, Mr. McBee ret fi quire only infrequei tion. The Purdue chemis many investigations use fluorine compoum ical applications. Elec gineering too is to b an excellent high sulation material hast culfur hexafluoride; This inert material produced in commerc tities by burning stream of fluorine. Synthetic Rubb synthetic Superior may be prepared from orine analogues of (compounds with simi tronic structures but co-worke- ,rs vi suli atoms), Professor McBj' ed, predicting further orinated plastics may ly supplement manyo miliar materials now fact millions of new are theoretically said, through the i to live. substituting the Chester Hartman hydC in compounds for ft Price, Installation, Indestructible flal and maintenance re- - vanized steel outlast other ilo material. markobly low. Guaranteed against Silage doesn't rot, spoil has more food value. 8 A cost, 0(I,?UL im ITS1""" bursting, fireproof. QQ GWom ft CHEER UP IT's I 5ieB T0 OF A your answer Here pePLE think a tm THAN LOT5 Fm to lower Improved feed quality , a Martin S scientifically engineered to provide Ideal for silage making. The ruggsd the building, the extra convenience Mh provide thenS Its lifetime dependability gressive farmer with a new, tested for getting full value from feed ertf1 no skilled help required-sizeSI to meet your needs. Insist on Haymakers, Corn Cribs made by In Ihe design and fabrication of s erected ' -. infofl full exclusively for the farm. For below In, telephone, or mail coupon KEN I SON n (7 TALMAGE, 17 oust teu-th- e imperial YOU 'rfdsy r Imperial is made by Hiram Walker. BlcnJeJ 10 gram ncucral S2 production of except ble coolants, lubrican! lie fluids, and lubr tives is to be. expee It may become p the near future to pr tomobiles in which oil and other lubriq not be changed and In reviewing the Lincoln Day banquet held in Duchesne on February 13 by the Republicans of Duchesne County, I think that honorable mention should be made of the county chairman and his for the effort theyput forth to make the evening a success. All too often the public places some one in a position of trust and from then on expects George to do it, or launches a storm of criticism instead of lending their help. The food was good, the program was good, and Mr. Richards talk was excellent, and so I say, Hats off to Byron Collett. To those who believe in the principals for which the Republican Pa.rty stands, I say, lets all unite in an effort to elect men who will uphold the Constitution of the United States and thereby make Utah and the nation a better place in which proper fermentation. carbon proved highly useful ing out new insects tics, etc. With the rapidly knowledge of fluori Letter To The Editor Air light walls exclude moisture and air, allow J materials with extreme resistaj and chemical action fluorocarbons coj way. ouMny LP time TO DRink f0LKS osep A that you cant keep You know - C. L. FRETWELL, Publishers 1 7, sj-im- AIM t "lt whiskey SC proof ' Hiram Walker & Sons Inc., Pcom, KENISON BROS. 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