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Show I.W.IS ho Road recent Saturday Evening Post editorial began, Of the 1,117 bills and resolutions dropped into the hopper of the House of Representatives on the opening day of the 83rd Congress, few are of more potential significance than an item 'n'vfiod as House Resolution 12." r-Hition, introduced by Rr pr srn'ative Coudert of New Yri, authorizes the House to conduct an inquiry and recommend to Congress ways and means by uhich commercial businesses now Avnod and operated by the Gov A ,!t Thursday, April 9, 1953 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE Page 6 s ernment can be sold to private Wilson estimates th evalue of goverat businesses citizens, cooperatives, or corpora- nment-owned were about $27,000,000,000. If they tions. Some the Post sold, three things would happen. said, Going on, weeks before the election, Charles First, the debt itself would be reE. Wilson the former Defense duced. Second, interest payments Mobilizer, that is proposed speci- on this much of the debt, some fically that the country consider $500,000,000 per year, need no the possibility of selling our nabe paid. And third, these tional dams, generating equipment longer would yield taxes for und distribution facilities to the properties federal and local government. people. Mr. Wilson suggested that The wnoie idea of desocializing could be accomthe switch-ove- r is likely to become popular. In any plished simply by authorizing holders of government obligations to event, there is nothing wrong with proposal to make a exchange their bonds for stock in Mr. Couderts of whole matter. The the study TVA, or what have you. road from socialism must be away "This is a tempting idea Mr. charted or it will never be completed. Endless discussion is now being given to the problems of debt reduction and tax reduction. How could a better start be made than by getting government out of A New Thrifty FAMILY SERVICE debt-buildin- g, tax-eatin- WEEK OF APRIL 6 Men, Rip Collins, Airport Service, 247; Women, Nell Holland, Scotty & Rudy, 207. The noblest revenge is to bry mm ...... MIRACLE LUSTRE ENAMEL LOOKS AND WASHES LIKE BAKED ENAMEL YOU Carbon Grocery Co. Rom where I sit ... by Joe Marsh commer- g KKEMGI0 AivtrUitrment cial business? The great majority of people, no matter how rough in manner or i bearing, are ($1.50 Min. Charge) kind-hearte- Chip Pulls a "Pip" d. r'" nvifl irarmi PICKED UP AND DELIVERED AT PETERSON doqs pjoiaj s.jjd) BARBER SHOP, DRAGERTON 9Ajq ciqurapo Lft TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS NoxsaovEa O Djumboj siao Price Laundry PHONE PRICE 218 OR HELPER 540 1DV1NOD Jtsnyj 33is JDndod jo pyi Aq JopjQ pm spjoio JDndo, (Ifccx A delightful birthday party was Everybody is in favor of imare given to George Foster at his home provement but most people Senator in Columbia. Guests were : Dr. and dead set against change. Mrs. Henning; Dr. and Mrs. Lof-ti-n Bennett and family; and Mr. Gus Pet-raki- s. After dinner, Mr. Foster A traitor is worse than a spy was feted by friends at the Foster because a spy taxes his chances Confectionary. in a strange land. A traitor is a home product that has soured on HIGH SCORE the vine. WEEK QF MARCH 25 Men, Don Hackney, Dragerton I know that I am deathless. Cleaners, 238; Women, C. F. Taylor, Wayne Motor, 231. HIGH SCORE Chip Hanson is a clever com- mercial artist Beside doing cartoons on onr paper, he picks up free lance drawing jobs. Right now hes whipping up posters for the Safety Campaign. They all have headlines like play it safe!. . . or, a live WIRE CAN START A FIRE! Chip looked a bit sheepish yes- terday. Didn't want to tell me why. Finally he blurted out, I feel like a dope. Here I am on this safety program and the fire inspectors tell me my own $tu dio'e a fire trap. Ive been storing paint there for years . . . From where Isit, what happened to Chip could happen to anyone. He was just too busy in- forming everyone else about not realizing his safety safety was threatened. Like those who fret about their neighbors whether they can afford a new house, whether they should have coffee or a glass of beer with lunch Chip simply forgot to draw some obvious conclusions about himself! MeckMA& Copyright, 1953, United States Brewers Foundation Cfi$) ton) (feeQs Tolcphono men are in mJTOH u Sr Jit.. In every corner of Utah, telephone men are hard at work meeting requests for core and more telephones. There isnt a community that hasnt felt the effect of telephone expansion. Over $15 Vi million have been invested in the past three years and almost $8V5 million will be put into new telephone equipment during 1953. The result? More and better telephone ervioe. Theres now one telephone for every four people in the state compared to one for every six people in 1945. Mlf R sKivaiaH Youll be surprised how much time, energy, and money you save with an electric water pump. Let it bring running water for all your needs watering cattle, irrigation, cleaning milk equipment and containers, and household use. And electricity on your farm costs so little! ,'h BUY FROM YOUR DEALER Repot! on Pto$ms In 118,000 more miles of wire-71,- 500 miles of it below ground-placIn service. ed ! since 1949 ... 52 exchanges received new centrat office equipment, such as switchboards and dial switches. 4,500 miles of additional long distance circuits. 1,380,000 calls handled daily an increase of 235,000 in just three years. Six new buildings or building 36,000 more telephones in service. additions erected. Eight new central offices created. flte fRjffiTB utaij Only a telephone company can continue to grow and to servo Utah as It needs to be served . financially-health- y SH THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY V |