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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Know Your Congressman To Make Democracy Work By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. The time of the singing of candidates has come, and the voice of the mock - turtle is heard in the land. report the. inside facts. This is not difficult for the reporters, since committee members whose efforts were defeated are usually willing to divulge the machinations of the if there were any mamajority chinations. s The representa-tiv6of the' peoAdmittedly getting all this information takes time and trouble on ple are about to your part. But that is the price you assure you that have to pay for the kind of governyou have been ment you want. The government well representmakes you take time to figure out ed, and that they income tax and to do a lot of your would like to other little chores, but it doesnt to do the By EDWARD EMERINE wnu Feature, force you to inform yourself on how representing. the oldest part of the your government is being run. How- - ljARADOXICALLY, And who are ever, the information is all there, j United States, in point of settlement, was only 'you to say no, if 11 you dont know E.es recently re-c- overed by the people of nerica exactly how well of the state is Florida, where only a half cen-o- n well as the record of what happens It your representavailhouse and first senate floors, are train rumbled into the station tury ago the atives in the house of representaable for a the is That part asking. at Miami, and the highway to the Keys was not tives or in the senate have carried S b rePrt" out your interests? ffigy toryouSreSSrnan opened until 1934. Only in recent years have Issues are being joined, there are Florida As Lowell Mellett in his agriculture, livestock and industry, as sharp cleavages of thought these Handbook of Politics:says well as substantial year-aroun- d living, been days. And if you dont take the of The a true of test member of States. The to the United the attention brought trouble to vote for the men in connot the good bills for is congress and 0f old tradition sun the in history empire gress who are voting the way you he voted, but the good bills want them to, you have no right to which of to new millions is people. he plus the numagainst lambast congress. True, it does take ber voted is more than sweeping coastlines, broad of bad bills he voted for. Florida some trouble to learn to read Nobody can ever take democracy beaches, beautiful hotels and resorts. It is more than your congressmans record cor- away from you you have to give a playground. It is a commonwealth of stability, offerA a rectly. simple statement by it And such dedefault. by away, ing the last eastern frontier and tremendous areas for candidate that he "voted for the X is no With' occurrence. rare faulting development. bill (the one you wanted passed) in the last few months, I know of Florida has known a procession of discoverers and doesnt mean too much. four which discovered A number of energetic organiza- there organizations conquerors Spanish cavaliers and grandees, tonsured was a Communist in their tions are out to tell you how to midst. soldiers and of fortune, villains and heroes, men friars Furthermore, that Com read the lawmakers records. One munist, using own energy, and of incredible daring and men of fiendish cruelty, dreamhis organization is the National Cit- taking advantage of the indifference ers who sought Utopia and the Fountain of Youth, men izens Political Action committee, of the other members, had gained who murdered in their lust for gold, which reminds voters: a key position in the group. As soon Back of the Florida of today, with its bathing beaches, A favorite device of congress- as the rest woke up and realized men is to vote for a series of man- the real purpose of measures taken golf courses, race tracks, social events, fishing, agricullivestock and industry, is the romance of centuries gling amendments, or to procrasti- under what amounted to this mans ture, men of many nations battled and fell, where mail-clawhen nate with investigations or recom- minority rule they threw him out, Spaniards struggled through morasses, where Inmittal. Then, having partially or You know, eternal vigilance. . . white aggressors, where completely wrecked the usefulness Knowledge is power. Know your dians resisted bitterly their thousands were murdered because of their religion, and of a bill, they may vote for the congressman, dont knock him. g final version. where Dont take these pirates, mervotes at face value. ciless warriors and fantastic. adven-tureIke Leaves held sway. jk In other words, dont be satisfied Secrets Untold etc. Likewise, Florida leads all ary lake somewhere in the heart When the Spaniards first arrived gars, with the record of the final vote. See The final report of General Eisen- on the mainland in 1513, they saw states in the variety of soils, crops, of the Everglades. There was not a how your congressman voted on the hower to the combined chiefs of trees, flowers, herbs and farm, plantation, settlement or Florida Indians wearing gold and fishes, amendments. birds. And Florida is big in area. town throughout all the district berewhich has at last been staff, silver ornaments. Drawing largely An automobile to reach Key West tween Jupiter and Biscayne Bay The concludes literature leased, is a splendid example of on Latin imaginations, the from with a warning that any voter, what-- ' terse and comprehensive exposi- Donstheir Pensacola, by way of Jackson- and the Gulf of Mexico. word back to Spain that Yet St. Augustine is the oldest 100 miles farther must ever side he is on, may well take tion. Into less than 123 pages is Floridasent drive ville, was a land of golden treas in America! town is than to heart: Jacksonville from Washingof the great- ure. Fact and fancy were so closecompressed the epic Those who see only beaches, When your congressmen start est military operation in history, ex- ly interwoven in the history of early ton, D. C. Florida pineapples are real, too. beautiful hotels and resorts, palm to Day. promising in their forthcoming tending from Florida that much of it must be And d oaks may the fields of cotton, tobacco, trees and It is unfortunate, for the sake of passed over lightly. campaigns, check their past voting And is This Florida! and quickare other say: crops records very carefully. Dont take mystery lovers, that the document But a Latin imagination is not re- peanuts, hay And so is retort: another is a substantial. may ly raising Poultry it for granted that if they voted for does not go into detail concerning quired to add luster to Florida toto And will be he this! Florida and pointing growing industry. large a measure, they were for it, and one phase of the invasion which has day! and a a and half livestock, has million industry agriculture, nearly fought for it. Perhaps they helped rightly been called the greatest 4 Land of Fruits both dairy and beef types, The palm trees are real; they are cattle the clever cripple it first. deception in history and many more ranges and pasruses which caused the enemy to not desert mirages. (Incidentally, tures are available. Its ranches are Disguise Enmity make his fatal miscalculations there were no palm trees growing measured in thousands of acres, To Legislation The discovered. was when Florida AlThe Germans knew that the with herd on Brahcowboys That is true, and with a little in- lied landing must be made some- palm trees came when a cargo of man and other riding There are 10 steers! vestigation, you will learn that a where within a relatively lim- coconuts washed ashore from a million acres of good land as yet lot of congressmen, whose real ited length of shore-linbut despite wrecked ship in 1879 and a grove Florida. views and activities you really this, they were completely deceived was started at Palm Beach.) The undeveloped ininFlorida is an actualIndustry wouldnt subscribe to at all, may as to where that landing was to be. citrus trees are real, too, and Flortoo. is being The ity playground have been voting in favor of some The result was that the Allies were idas grapefruit, oranges, tanger- utilized for and factories, workshops of the bills you would like to see able to get a toehold which they ines, limes, lemons and kumquats shipyards and mills. Its paper passed. Later, when he is solicit- might never have been able to se- are used in millions of American mills are producing, and new ones watermelFlorida will with he homes. Likewise, ing your support, point cure, had the Germans guessed the built. Florida cement plants being pride to these measures, omitting prospective location of the real ons, strawberries and always busy. Florida factories to mention the fact that he helped beachheads. fruit are extremely edible and nour- are make everything from glassware to emasculate them carefully beObviously, the natural place for a ishing. and cotton goods to furniture and of fore hand. No the imagination figments 10 per cent of landing would be in reasonable are fields of celery, potatoes, beans, ships. Approximately You will also find sometimes that proximity to Calais, where the Engfish business of the United State? the although he has loudly shouted lish channel is narrowest. Actually, cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, pep- is centered in the Peninsula State. down a bill (which you didnt like, the nearest beachhead was estab- pery, tomatoes and other truck The Grapefruit grown near Orlando. only commercial sponge fishand, secretly, he did), he did not lished more than a hundred miles crops. Florida has no equal in the ery in the United States is in Florof phosphate, naval actually work against it. Perhaps, farther to the west, but the whole production substantial homes. Railroads, harci-- ida. finally, he even voted for it if there German 15th army remained immo- stores, Fullers earth, sponges, Mine and Forest Products. bors, waterways, airports and was no roll call. bilized in that locality until it was broad bring both Flori-da- s highways Nature Florida gave phosphate, Another way in which a congress- too late. the playground and the home limestone, sand, kaolin, clay and man can fool his constituents is to But even after the landings were within 48 hours of any ground cement. Its lumber industry is great offer an amendment which appeals made, the Germans were not sure of United States. the and growing greater. The Florida part to his particular locality, but which they were the main objectives. This land ofAmericas tidewater red cypress is known as he knows cant possibly go was because of a of plan the wood eternal.. Floridas yel- fers its magnificent mansions, Spanthrough. That appeases the constit- deception, all the prongs pointing low pine is produced in volume for a ish architecture, rich historic lore, uents and, at the same time, to simulated diversionary attacks of delightful towns, miles of variety of uses. Turpentine and ros- scores and doesnt hurt the congressman with by land, sea and air, away from farms ranches, dozens of facin, naval stores, are liquid gold the particular interests with whom the actual invasion area. and tories mills, airports and Florida from pines. Tung orchards he may be friendly. They know, as One simulated attack was at Cap smooth highways, to everyone. See are a new and vigorous industry for well as he does, that the whole thing of Le Havre, northwest east coast; visit its west dAntifer, Floridas the state. is just an empty gesture. far to the east of the invasion area. Millions of Americans visited coast. And in between the coasts, the strangest, There, planes, ships and balloons Kill Bill Florida for the first time during the see the Everglades moved in, gradually producing war. They were the men and wom- most unique, most mysterious, of With Recommittal echoes on the German radar warnen of the military and naval forces natural land formations on the conThe vote to recommit is a fa' instruments similar to the aping who were trained at Florida bases tinent. vorite trick, and usually reveals the proach of a convoy. s for Florida Discover yourself. Pensacola, Valparaiso, Camp true sentiments of a senator or conhave! of others Another fake was West landing Blanding, Orlando, Tampa, staged gressman. Not much attention is in the direction of still Palm Beach, Miami, Key West paid to these votes. When a bill is farther east, with 16 Boulogne, and many others. Now that the ships and acrecommitted, it is sent back to The is over, many of them are rewar planes. companying steady reconcommittee, supposedly for was taken turning to Florida where they will sideration. Actually, recommittal patrolling of the skies the Germans to be the air cov make their homes, enter business, Although much is heard about usually means the measure is pi- by an oncoming armada. er of and develop help industry. east coast, the west coast Floridas forever. geonholed Far to the west, halfway down the Less than 75 years ago Rockledge on the Gulf of Mexico is equally On the other hand, when a powerGOVERNOR CALDWELL was the most southerly settlement notable. From 10 to 30 years before ful committee pigeonholes a bill you Cherbourg peninsula, and at various of Florida other airborne points, dummy on the east coast. Fort Pierce was St. Augustine was founded, there would like to see passed, and your invasions were carried out. The in the heart of the Indian country, were Spanish settlements at Tampa Millard Fillmore Caldwell recongressman is willing to sign a Germans that signed as representative in confinally , decided and Indian river was a wild, al- Bay, Charlotte Harbor and Pensapetition to try to get it out,' you can the real thing was approaching gress to move to his farm in Leon most unknown area, the haunt of cola. Much of the interior of westbe pretty certain he is sincerely Boulogne, and opened up with all wild fowl and flamingoes. St. ern Florida had been explored and county. He raises pecans, genworking to get it through. Meantime, the actual inthey Okeeeral farm crops and beef and Petersburg was on Of course, what goes oranges had been introduced besecretly vasionhad. forces crossed the channel dairy cattle. He also practiced chobee, the largest body of fresh fore either the Dons or the French in committees is most important, water in all the southeast, was had erected their first fort on the and can usually be found out, for without any interference by air or law In Tallahassee before he besea. came governor. east coast the newspaper and radio scarcely more than a It was a grand fake. make every effort to con-.tin- ue I d swash-bucklin- rs NC-PA- C , D-D- ay V-- E hioss-drape- e, non-citr- us five-pro- ng Mil-lion- West Coast Settled Before East Coast non-existe- corre-sDonden- ts semi-lengen-d- |