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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Thursday, April 26, 1956 - page 2 a special benefit grnated to no strongly opposes this bill because if grantbenefits other segment- of American so- such ed to the savings for retirement ciety. Hearings have been held by of one group of organized labor could not long be denied to all the House Commerce Committee. such savings, including social seLast week. Senator Kennedy joined by five other Dem- curity and private pension plans. ocrats of the extreme liberal wing, The Treasury estimates the revintroduced similar legislation in enue loss from the rail union bill the Senate. Senator Kennedy in- at $70 million annually; if extendtends to hold hearings on the ed to all retirement savings, cost could run as high as measure before a Senate Labor $3 billiop. subcommittee which he heads the Despite this opposition, despite the fact that thes has no jurisdiction what- power of the rail unions in Consoever in regard to tax legisla- gress is so great that the Demotion. cratic leadership appears deterThe House Ways and Means mined to push this egislation which must origin- through even if it means trampCommittee legislative ate all tax legislation prodded ling on established proedeures. its Repreby ranking republican, sentative Reqd, (N.Y. , has tried Ancient Romans called an or-- , to ston the rail union grab bv metal mined on Cythe that uananimously demanding House Commerce Committe drop prus Cyprium aes, or Cyprian its consideration of the tax pro- brass. From the Latin term, later contracted to cuprum, came the visions of the measure. The Treasury Department English word, "copper. tax-fre- e - THE AMERICAN WAY Jfo Comment 1U By JAMES W. DOUTHAT A reversal of WASHINGTON usual election-yea- r tactics is in a 25 the making in Congress per cent increase in social secur- THE OFFICIAL. NEWSPAPER OF SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH Published Every Thursday at Monticello, Utah Entered at the Post Office at Monticello, Utah, as second class matter under the' Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 NATIONAL Editor-Publish- Alex Hopkins Dale Hopkins ity taxes rather than a cut in personal incom taexes. This increase is social security taxes is called for in a bill which would apply to 70,000,000 persons and would up payroll taxes $1.7 billion a year to provide highly controversial new benefits for only 1,000,000 individuals. Democrats pushing for these nem benefits payments to disabled at age 50 and lowering from 65 t o62 the age at which elegible women can receive benefits appear to forget the resentment of many voters in 1954 who found that ah increase in 'social securand in ity taxes would balance some cases wipe out the income tax cut enacted the same year. SenaAnother Income Tax tors who support the Ensenhower administrations opposition to EDITORIAL Larry M. Roe, Betty L. Roe, Business Manager Cornelia Perkins, Society Editor 2 Monticello) Monticello Monticello 27R2 111-11- .... ... . Mechanical . 111-11- . Department . . 2 Monticello 111 - 112 . Monticello 111 112 . Unthinkable, But Here It Is! The GATT frying pan is not hot enough to suit the Administra-,tion- . Thus, Congress is being urged to push us out of it and into the OTC fire. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), complains the State Department, is too "cumbersome,' since we and the 33 other signatories have to do business through ponderous and unwieldy annual meetings, or tediously through "bilateral diplomatic channels. The proposed Organization for Trade Cooperation (OTC), already approved by the House Ways and Means Committee, would, the Administration assures us, be. much more efficient. In fact, the whole problem of international trade would be pretty taken out of out hands, As one of 34 nations in OTC, possessing one vote and no veto power, the others would be writing American trade policy. And if, as it is reasonable to suppose, the others should choose to drag us down to their economic level, it could be easily and quickly done by whittling away or removing the tariff protection that stands between American workers and foreign wage scales. High Time He Got That Ticket much Actually, OTC threatens not only our prosperity and living standards, but everything that America stands for. In surrendering national policy-makin- g powers to envious foreigners, Congress would indeed be the scuttling Ship of State. OTC deal is set up, it can not go into business until it is nations approved by representing 85 percent of the groups total trade. ' heat is on. the Hence, As this But if the Congress, which has already relinquished so much of its authority to the Executive Department and the Judiciary, abandons its responsibility for our international trade to this newest and most reckless aspect of Globaloney, it might as well quit Entirely. r POTTER. INVESTMENT COMPANY ttRANillf. V-23R- uiEfwrs URANIUM STOCK APPROXIMATE QUOTATION 12:00 Noon Thursday . The Old Settler . . . By Albert R. Lyman San dear Juaners: My many of the ancient customs. The old chiefs approved of the Websor Mr. what Regardless ter may give as the meaning of lower village, but looked with civilization, we have vested it disfavor on many things that with certain virtues and certain went on in the progress above. powers which it simply must I was curious to get thp viewhave or it is not civilization. point of the old men, and after There are certain things which my visit to them and considering we expect it to do regardless; it it from their angle, I felt a promust be the dependable standard found respect for them and what by which humanity preserves its they were trying to do in minimizing the worth of the progresequilibrium and carries on. sives above, and magnifying the allowWe must of course make ance for that which masquerades worth of what prevailed in the as civilization to do the most un- ancient village below. civilized things Imaginable. Even They wrere true men, good men, so, there are seamy sides, and both of them. As they appraised had raw, red fringes to the thing we the situation, civilization are wont to depend upon. It is brought nothing as good as it had disconcerting, if not dishearten- taken away. It had brought, iming to take account of what civil- proved methods of industry, law ized people have done to, find the and literature, but they did not damning influence they have ex- compensate for the wrecked ercised upon people whom they standards, broken homes, social disdainfully call savages. The ef- diseases, drunkeness, and a terfect in too many cases on these rible invasion of what used to be primitive people, has been to their home life, and their enjoymake them worse instead of bet- ment of splendid health hardly known among them now, with ter. The seeds of civilization are their impaired eyesight, decaying often nothing more than the dead- teeth, and their increasing with the disease of ly germs of venearealism, leaving what had been a healthy and hap- white men At one Hopi dwelling we found py people to rot away morally and physically. The track of our Am- a grown son of the family sitting erican soldiers in many countries at a table in the dooryard, talkwhere they have gone, is too un- ing loud and long, and his mother savory to dwell upon: children in the doorway beckoned us to without fathers, women who have come in. She closed the door belost their simple and trusting hind us, and looked at us in emfaith in what they took to be barrassment. Dont listen to . Whatever civilization him, she said, hes been too had to give these people, it cer- much with white men. tainly has made a poor start toWe too were ashamed, and wards the delivery of that gift. wished for that moment we could In the faraway country of the be Hopis with the stigma of civilTiwi, a little strip of land off the ization washed from us. Northern coast of Australia, a In our contact with the the few civilized (?) men made a visit and other tribes east of Navajos a there number of years ago, and was ever a matter of sorit there, when a visit was made there rerow to learn how old standards of the echoes cently, strange been broken down, and somecivilization was found there in had harmful established In their thing the form of children. The old people look at it It should be added, however, place.mourn. Their simplicity, their and civthat little different form of to what fidelity they had acceptilization has caught up with the ed as their rugged health, first, and there has been a school their right, great endurance, and their there for those children the last forms as men and stalwart two years. civilization has not yet comIn Moencopy I found that the two old chiefs, Sheemptua and pensated for what it has taken This doesnt half tell the Tewanemptua seemed to be op- away. let us bring it nearer home story, the of civilization their posing issue. in next weeks people. In the village on the upper shelf the people were trying to live like other Americans; the Eskimos, born and reared near village on the lower shelf still the water, almost never learn to had the old form of houses, the swim the waters too cold, says klvas, the old mill stones and the National Geographic Society. these new benefits point out that special purpose taxes, sdeh as the social security tax, are in effect another income tax. If increased too rapidly, they become as burdensome to some taxpay- ers as existing discriminatory income taxes and lead to demands for relief. even Social security taxes without the proposed 25 per cent will reach a total of increase 8 per cent by 1975. Demands for relif from this burden are as certain as the taxes. The form such demands will take is already evident shifting the cost to someone else. In this case, th cry would b for having all or part of the program paiu for out of general revenues. A 'prime Rail nion Tactics illustration of what can happen when special purpose taxes become too high is the current drive by the railway labor unions to shift the major share of rail employee pension costs t6 the gener- al public. The rail unions are strongly sponsored pushing legislation by some 70 members of the to increase railway penHouse sions, increase the tax on rail wages to a total of 143 per cent, and exclude the employee share of the tax from both federal withholding tax and taxable income. Their actual pensions are already free of tax. Rail union leaders insist they do not want the increased pensions without the tax exclusion the-annua- com-mitt- e ange-yello- DR. B. A. BROUGHTON OPTOMETRIST EYES EXAMINED IN MONTICELLO (Old Church Bldg) EACH FRIDAY OFFICE PHONE 73R4 for appointments. or Call Mrs. Helen Redd 103-R- Will be in Blanding each Thursday. At Gateway Motel. 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