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Show October 8, 1659 EMERY COUNTY (UTAH) PROGRESS Page Two THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHED, This Week ' WAY In 1900 Published every Thursday, at Castle Dale, Utah matter under the Entered in the Post Office at Castle Dale, Utah, as second-clas- s Act of March 3, 1879, as amended by the Acts of June 11, 1934, and October 30, 1951 (39 United States Code 226 ; 20 Stat. 359; 48 Stat 928; 65 Stat. 672). NATIONAL With Clinton Davidson A DOUBLE BURDEN A full study of the pan, combined with revitalized research, can open new and more profitable large - scale markets for farmers, in the opinion of two outstanding senators from the Pacific Northwest. , Too little is being done under present farm programs to help two-pri- EDITORIAL (IU Editor and Publisher L CLARIN D. ASHBY RAY E. HASSINGER MRS. JOYCE OLSEN KIMBLE LARSEN Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Printer, Operator In The Squeeze The Lakeview, Oregon, Examiner-Tribuntells a sadly amusing little story. Due to an error, a clerk was given a pay envelope containing a blank check. He moaned, Just what Ive been afraid of; My deductions have caught up with my salary Well, the deductions havent come to 100 per cent of salary yet, but they rare moving steadily forward. As sees it, There the Examiner-Tribun- e is no retreat in sight; all the Big Government planners grow more energetic in pushing ideas which call for more and more federal spending, consequently more and more federal taxes. Every time the government gets into business or into industry, like TVA or making rope, the government is crowding out some taxpaying individual or firm. And the more taxpayers who are crowded out of business or inlustry, the more the government must increase taxes on government programs do not pay taxes; they eat taxes. This puts the case in the plainest and simplest terms. A child should have no difficulty in understanding it. On the one hand, we are projecting government deeper and deeper into the affairs of the people, at an cost. On the other hand, we permit government to absorb and destroy taxpaying enterprise as in the case of TVA and rope manufacture, to take the two disparate exam e, others-Becaus- ever-soari- ng Cleveland, Gr. River, Huntington, Clawson, Elmo, 6510 4221 5533 6637 cites. How ples the Examiner-Tribun- e thumbscrew's can the long tightening of bureaucracy and socialism continue without squeezing out individual opportunity and freedom? This is something to think about right now. payroll. Since 1900 private employment has increased 100 per cent and government employment 650 per cent. The Federal government runs about 20,000 commercial-industri- al enterprises, with capital assets of some $12 billion, in direct competition with private business. Federal aid to states, local communities and individuals totals about $7.2 billion a year. By way of comparison, the figure was $147 million in 1930. - We have swollen government, socialistic government, and paternal government. It devours taxes, even as it discourages and sometimes destroys .taxpaying private enterprise. Thats one of the big reasons why taxes, direct and indirect, take about 30 per cent of our income. Emery News Mrs. Rose Olsen and Mrs. ther, Sophia Torgersen. Magnus is employed in the coal industry. Karen Olsen and Jennie Lee Hansen of Salt Lake were home for the weekend. Deer hunters . are asked to save their deer hides again this year for the Boy Scouts. Money received frbm the pelts is used to finance this worthy cause. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Milroy, Minn, visited Vetter of ten days at the Dill worth Johnson home. They are Mrs. Johnsons ' and Mr. Lamar Mrs. Broder- ick and family of Magna visited last week at the Ferry Broderick home. Lamar has been employed in Zions Canyon. best centralize my private papers?" t You can gather them together in any one place, of course; but the best place is a sate deposit box inside our banks strong vault. Your safe deposit box here is a central place for your papers (and other personal valuables) which you can visit any time during banking hours and find what you want, in privacy. And here valuables have the protection of complete, modem safeguards against fire and theft The cost is insignificant, alongside the advantages. Why not act now? CARBON EMERY BANK MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM AND FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION . 3 INTEREST ON GUARANTEED SAVINGS Drive-i- n Teller Window Free Parking Lot Home Improvement Loans Auto Loans Checking Accounts Safety Deposit Boxes 45 South Carbon Price, Utah Wynona Olsen was released Sunday in Sacrament meeting from her position as ward chorister. Eunice Larsen was sustained as the new chorister with Mabel Jensen as her assistant Mr. and Mrs. Rhodey Anderson and son Eric of Salt Lake were weekend guests at the Que Olsen home. !l CRYSTAL cttR , VJEATTK2n :i TTK2 VJAV! ur local Hardware and Lumbor T" Dwkf Ms ...by Dr. Gtorg S. Bonson PRESIDENT NATIONA1 EDUCATION PROGRAM Arlunui The People and Taxes , In the fiscal year recently ended our federal government spent $80.7 billion. The taxes for this cut deeply into the freedom of every American to control the spending of his own money. About of everybodys income, on the average had to be paid in federal taxes, directly and indirectly. If j)ou worked a week, one and a half days pay each week represented your share in the federal governments expenses. Part was deducted from your pay check, part, was extracted in hidden, indirect taxes every time you made a purchase. With the money he pays in taxes a number of necessary governmental services are performed for the American citizen. Some of these governmental services are performed with outstanding efficiency. Some are utterly inefficient, grossly wasteful Some governmental services are not needed. Some are beneficial to a comparatively handful of people. And, these are the ones that make the constant, peace-tim- e expense of government so costly and burdensome. Services Require Taxes Many congressmen, when approached by constituents wailing about the high cost of government, say, Well, The People demand the services, and naturally we have to tax to get the money to pay for them." This statement has only a germ of truth in it The People" didn't demand the services. A few people did. The People generally seldom demand anything of government except of their freedom. protection Many of the governmental services now costing the taxpayers so much have been established through the lobbying efforts of a handful of people and are serving the direct interest of only a few. The People didnt want these services. But they were unorganized and, in most silent cases, apathetic and None of the 5,000 lobbyists now living in Washington work for The People. All work for comparatively small organizations. The activity of lobbying is all right Although not one of the vast millions of ordinary John Doe citizens has a lobbyist in Washington, together these citizens constitute the most powerful political force in the nation. Passage of the Landrum-Griffi- n bill to curb some of the power of labor leaders proved this. The John Doe citizens wrote their congressmen, (they lobbied on their own) asking for strong of legislation. The avalanche letters drowned out the voices and the pressures being applied by numerous Washington lobbyists for pressure groups. Building Not Wanted The pity is (and the fault is) that the majority of American citizens seldom get up on their hind feet and act politically. In a city not far from where I live, are shaping up a block of downtown real estate for the construction of a huge new federal government office building. It will cost several million dollars in tax money, although just across the street stands the biggest building in the city a relatively new fed eral office building V4 Two years ago the congress man for that district asked the appropriations committee for the building. A handful of per sons from the district, some of whom undoubtedly would di one-four- th ur bull-doze- PAU, Tux-O-, 1 Only S 2c f M Ait W.th It. Ft. i t. 70 man .i . storm doom MflZtWATS AOiCH CMCLOSUtft tUllfHNCS P. C. racroT tf Jones & Sons Castle Dale, Utah iBLEB - SMrcy, out of every six employed Americans is now on a government Magnus Abelin of Glenwood Springs, Cola visited last week with their mo- I it' One Mr. "How can Looking Ahead ters. Sherwin Broderick is living at the Bradford home while he attends college at the BYU. y The Sneak Thief new markets for our agricultural abundance nowhere nearly matches our production gains." Only a small amount, compared with the total farm program costs, goes for research to develop additional markets, they said. A two-priwhen program, coupled with expanded research, is worth trying, the senators told us, as a way of both raising farm income and getting the twin burdens of subsidy and carrying charges on storage off the consumers back. ce Clawson News Mrs. Bessie Wright Weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blackburn were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Arnold and family of Salt Lake, Mr. and Mrs. James Elliot of Payson, Mr. and Mrs. Don Marlin of Jericho Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Hiatt of Helper, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilstead of Lawrence. Senator Jackson maintains that our ability to produce more Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Ralphs food and fiber than we consume left Monday for a visit with should be considered a blessing their son Seeley and family in rather than a curse." The prob- Rancho Cordova, Calif. lem, he added, is to find ways to utilize our Lund Seeley is home from his abundance. Both senators agree that re- summers employment with a search into the development of sheep herd near Clear Creek. sensible God-give- n n. If you ever w'onder why taxes and government debt are at outer-spac- e levels, some facts issued by a New York bank may help to clarify mat- and Mrs. Kirk Brinker-hof- f Orem visited at the Broderick of San Pablo, Calif, were home Monday and Tuesday of recent visitors in Emery. last week. They brought their baby girl to introduce to the Luelma and Tex Bradford of family. Her name is Heide Jo. If ce You're Working For The Government con- sumer, Senator Warren G. Mag-nuso- n and Henry M. Jackson, both of Washington state, told us in an interview on farm problems. The consumer-taxpaye- r, they agreed, today carries a double burden. His tax bill includes subsidy payments intended to hold down production as well as more than $1 million a day in grain storage charges on excess production. Meanwhile, they said, farm income continues to decline and farmers costs continue to climb Two-PriPlan Urged Senators Magnuson and Jack-so- n contended both farmers and consumers would be far better e off under a system for wheat. That is the program which congress passed in 1958, but which was vetoed. Such a system would return to a fair price for that growers and rectly benefit, appeared testified In favor of the appro-priato- portion of their crop consumed as They and the congress- domestically for food, such man said, "The People want a loaf of bread, cake mix, etc., this, its needed. Actually, not and permit open market sale of one person In 10,000 in the dis- the remainder for export, live trict wanted the new building. Only the very few who ian federal employees, and for closely follow, and participate aid programs directly bene in governmental affairs knew firing rather small groups of citizens at the expense of the that it was being proposed. general public. Going Along Silently The people generally were too There was a proposal in the apathetic to be aware of these first session of the 86th con- allocations of tax money The last only noise many of them make gress which adjourned month, provding for many mil- year after year is the long lion dollars in financial aid to groans when they tote up their Titos Communist government in income tax bill each spring or Yugoslavia. It passed. A Tew when they try to make each people appeared at the Wesh-ingto- n months income cover the prehearings and supported ceding months expenses. Few this expenditure. They said the realize, day in and day out, that vast majority of The People the tax termite is working approved. The people didnt around the clock. For instance, write congress on this one. So, there are 151 hidden taxes in congress took the word of the the purchase of a loaf of bread! A spendthrifty government, were lobbyists. Appropriations approved running into the bil- unchecked by active citizens, lons including salary requests becomes ingenious in its taxing for more than 2 million civil- - methods. two-pric- Mr. I ce either the farmer or the Society, Office Apprentice CORRESPONDENTS Mrs. Agnes Jensen Castle Dale, 2895 Glen Snow Mrs. E. B. Simonson Rose Olsen Emery, 4249 Mrs. Flora Jensen Orangeville, 3330 Cristy Humphrey Mrs. Bessie Wright Deborah Huntsman Ferron, 5755 Mrs. Sarah Pulsipher Rex Fillmore Lawrence, 3436 Washington stock feed, or for industrial uses. Actually, the senators said, the price of wheat products would be increased very little since only about four cents worth of wheat now goes into a loaf of bread. The savings in taxes would more .than offset the added cost. The Washington senators urged that the senate and house agriculture committees give serious consideration to increased emphasis on research to find new and expanded uses for farm products. Surpluses Both of the senators feel that too much blame is placed on as the mounting surpluses cause of every farm ill. "Surpluses are a relatively small part of total farm output, they said, representing only five to eight percent of annual production. This compares, Sen. Magnuson pointed out, with a 100 percent poultry increase in egg and production, a 300 percent increase in oilseed production jand a 47 percent increase in corn since 1939. STS 0B2B momtn? rs BE SURE YOUR HOME IS READY FOR WINTER ! 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