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Show THE PAGE TvVO children can get them. Destroy chem as soon as they have sened their initial, intended and wrherc EDITOIUALS Laments Come Too Late The afrermach of accidental death has always been a chorus of. "If only - . . If only the gun hadn't been loaded . . wed been home when the fire started . . when they got into the medicine cabinet . . found the scissors , . turned on the gas. Most shocking to us today is the anguished cry: "If only I hadn't given the baby that plastic bag to play with!" The current number of dearhs due to the shiny transparent material attraction this u!tra-thihas for youngsters, especially infants, and its property of clinging to little faces on inhalation, has shocked the nation. It has produced a hysteria that is reflected in a rash of proposed legislation at community, state and e m Federal levels- That something should, and must be done about such a menace is obvious- But we do not think laws or ordinances or other controls Can e er prevent, or even minimize the tragedies inherent in the playful, heedless, and to a large degree, helpless years of early yourh. Under such an approach to the problem, our - publicly-administere- d ancestors would have had to legislate against cutlery and shears. The perils of die coal oil lamp would have precluded its use, gas and electricity would be unheard of. Nor could we have had the protection of germicides, or even household cleaners. On. careful reflection, most of us will agree with the US Public Health Service and the National Safety Council that this sort of responsibility must remain with parents and cannot be assumed or met by regulation. "We believe, says the National Safety Council, the problem of child deaths from polyethelene film is primarily an educational problem, not legislative. The composite advice is. Don't let your children play with these bags. Don't leave them ft SAN- - JUAN FRIDAY, &ECOGD DAD, ARE THESE KIDS SPEAKING OF YOU? useful purpose- - Don't try to "use them for something else. Implicit, also, is the plea that parents make every effort to know what their children are we Sure a fwTti IUd Burns name "FRONT j JfeEATA Ale Like A doing. P4t PLffS Three Cheers for Dad! Ball, SQ$Mg. The dandelion once was selected as die appropriate flower for Father's day because "the more it is trampled on, the more it grows." Thar about sums up the plight of Father. Once a year we throw him a bouquet or a tie and chalk up another duty well done. But the old man surely is worthy of better treatment because, as The World Book Encyclopedia points out, his name is a title of honor given to those who establish anything important in human no TeuS a how Tmnss withm Study, HowTo work Behave vfla Tt' ffiius , To To AnO' Everyth WHEN He CATCH EJ -- I M BlT LYSr ,cR oR.ACivt- - iiwte Av CMStSTen., Pees ns. AvD Hove' trots PWin' PoEs Lois o D H6L LAY-iT-- on Po? itiyeuy heS A Rig-ut- PAR.9,' , PUDS', AYiP-STlC,MYHAlft- AN MY MAK-VlT- VfdeiU JA The coercive power of compulsory unionism, transformed into a massive and irresponsible political power, is described by Senator .) as the most Goldwater So uNPRrAWtwf MV -P0 H gEHAV.O pressing and dangerous internal OUT yjTH "Ttt'QAvG-f- f I 'faGcxs fto Comment 0uoty TfeLL? ME HOVn 8oY$ TWivK ASouT problem which we face in America chase Afcouuo iurm today. Senator Goidwater expressed his views in testifying before a Joint that House Labor Subcommittee he did not believe the Kennedy bill passed by the Senate Respect me Retted- - becauPe I RbSPecT what my PADDY Tells me ABouT tHins-Sometimes he "CraOCs'Powa' S lE"f GoitG- To - on me HARD AOHBqYJ (D-Mas- Take George Washington, for example, known as die Father of His Country. Washington shares rhat title with such illustrious Romans as Cicero, Julius Caesar and die emperor Augustus. Homer is called the Father of Fpic Poetry because of his "Iliad and the "Odyssey. Geoffre Chaucer, whose "Canterbury Tales established srandard form of English verse, is known as Father of English Poetry. Every physician honors the Father of Medicine when he takes the oath devisd by the Greek physician Hippocrates- - And any man who ever baited a hook knows that Izaak, author of the 'The Compleat Angler, is the Father of Angling. The age of the atom has ushered in ever more "fathers." J. Robert Oppenheimer has been called the Father of the Atomic Bomb, while Dr. Edward Teller is credited with being the Father By Albert Rickover of the Hydrogen Bomb. Admiral Hyman My dear San Juaners: There is known as die Father of the Atomic Submarine. was a dickens of a lot of excite- Thats enough to put any fathers head in j ment, and suspense and expecta- tion in Bluff that day in 1893. , t . tne c ouds. And for one day at least, let s let him People were out in the dooryards keep it there. or leaning against their fences, A JUVENILEIN INTEG-- IT Y m THE HOME-STARTS TSastrtf TF R The Old Settler are meeting daily to work out contracts to replace the three-yea- r agreements that expire soon. Kennecott haf approached the bargaining table determined to be fair, reasonable and realistic in order to achieve an equitable settlement of issues in the interest of the common good. For while these negotiations directly affect more than 7,000 employees, in a broader sense every one of Utahs 880,000 citizens has a personal interest in what happens. Directly and directly, the prosperity of all Utahns depends to some extent on the millions of dollars circulated throughout the state in the form of payrolls, supply purchases and tax payments. Only by continuing to compete successfully in the production and sale of copper can Kennecott fulfill its basic responsibility to stockholders, employees and customers. Maintain-enc- e of Utah Copper Division as a l Neih'oor tti-lpin- rr Build a Better Utah would be good for America. The Arizonian, outspoken advocate of effective labor legislation, contends that the Senate passed bill would not remedy the abuses spotlighted by the Senate Rackets Committee and would not strike at the actual disease. Then he explained in detail what he meant. The disease I speak of," he POWER, and nothing said, is else. Power of the nature that allows Hoffa to threaten the entire nation and to issue this threat with impunity and the ability to carry it through without the law in being able to touch him, and fact, protecting him. Power that allows A1 Hayes to uphold the expulsion of three of hi3 members because they dared to speak out against a position of the union, exercising a right which the constitution recognizes as inherent but which the union denies. Power that allows Walter Reu-thto carry on the brutal strike at Kohler, defying the clergy, the bar, and the public and even exerting that power in another state to prevent for three years the extradition of a goon who beat up a er SS r n A 'K. Some people were pronounced in their belief that it was all Labor negotiations are under way Kennecotts Utah Copper Division. Union and company representatives Kennecott Copper Corporation . . ft. Lyman listening and looking. They feared to turn their heads for a minute lest they should fail to see the thing when it happened. 19,1953 rr affairs. 060,000 oiniins sir m on GOIWB T011IS WMWI CHEATiwfi jS? JUNE non-strike- diV; foolish and unnecessary, even that it was entirely unjustified and nothing less than a tragedy. But whether they approved or protested they wanted by all means to watch it. Men from the outside had contracted to build a school house :n the Bluff, and they sentiments and traditions of some of the people who objected to what they proposed to do. They determined to do things in their own wray, the way that promised to be most profitable regardless of the objections of individuals. Somehow, these objectors failed to unite with a community protest, and the questionable project was canied too far to stop before some of the old Bluffites realized just how foolish it was. That it really was foolish from every point of view was very soon proved beyond question, but once done there was no undoing of it, and it has been nothing less than a shame in all the 66 years since that lime. During the 13 years that the Pioneers had been living in Bluff, they cherished a patriotic pride in the two unique sets of great stone pillars, towering from natural platforms on the high cliff to the north of them. Two pairs of twins unlike anything that man could make the work of Natures matchless artist. The pair that remains is known and admired, photographed and reverently as The Navajo Twins. The other pair was never named. These contractors resolved to undermine one of those west twins, and to use the stone for building blocks. They had fired so many blasts in its base it seemed impossible that it still could stand, but it ciung to the place it held through the long, long centuries, and they declared that with the big shot they were putting in now, it would not fail to fall. We hated to see it fall, yet we stood watching in awed sorrow. When, with draw-breath, we heard that last fatal shot crash into the silence, and even before its melancholy echoes came rumbling back from the cliffs across the river, we saw' the great pillar begin to lean slowly towards the north, to strike on the edge of the shelf which is on the level with its base. It broke in several large pieces while still falling, and when with a terrible crash it struck the sharp edge of the shelf, what had happened was hidden for a while by a great cloud of dust. When the cloud blew away, behold a sickening mass of sand and rubble. It was a waste of time, a waste of material, and above all, a shameful destruction of choice art which Nature had provided to relieve the monotony of the wilderness, and cheer the hearts of men and women who cam to redeem poo-pooh- r. that allows George Power Meany to openly tell the Congress of the United States just exactly what he will permit to be written into labor reform law and extending his dictates into the corridors and rooms of the Capitol where his lawyers wrote amendments to the labor bill. Power that allows COPE (the AFL-CIPolitical Action Committee) to cross state lines to engage in politics in part with compulsory dues money taken from Republicans and Democrats alike in violation of the spirt of both and the Corrupt the Taft-HartlPractices Acts. Power that flaunts the laws of the land and scorns the rights and prerogatives of the people. Power that is denied, and properly so, to other segments of our society, but which is used by labor leaders with the knowledge that they are protected by law and that their strength in Congress insures the continuance of these laws. Explaning that under compulsory unionism, corrupt ladders hold a clear-cu- t power of economic life or death, over their members, Senator Goldwater added: Now let us take this compulsory unionism and go one step further and it is a step which has already been taken. Let the union take the overwhelming economic power he holds and transform it into compulsory political support of any party, faction of a party, candidate or issu as chosen by the union official. At a single stroke the union official can transform the union dues orfor economic iginally collected purposes into a war chest for political purposes limited only by the size of the union treasury. Every union member under such a compulsory system must continue to support such political activities with his union dues. Failure to )ay dues is grounds for expulsion from the union, followed on every union by black-listin- g job. A union member can be deprived of employment opportunities by his union official for refusing to pay political assessments, or dues which would be used for political purposes. O ey official its waste places. People who admire the Navajo Twins, still standing in all the grandeur which Nature gave them, should look across to the west at the solitary pillar on its pedestal by the towering bluff, where it stands alone by the melancholy stump of its twin brother. Side by side, through the vast eons from a past eternity they stood as constant sentinels over the beautiful San Juan valley till that most destructive of all predacious animals, man, came to sell them down the river for a mess of pottage. THE SAN JUAN RECORD Published Every Friday at Utah. Entered at the Post Office at Monticello, Utah, as second class mattter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Mon-tlcell- o, . i i |