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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH JULY 21. 1914 THE SALHIA SUN Be-Cake-p- First State Bank ul Of Salina Published Every Friday At Saliua, Utah "The Livestock Bank of Utah" Entered at the postoffice at Salina as second-clas- under the Act of Congress of March matter s 3, 1879. ... Subscription Rates; Member Utah State Press Association One Year National Editorial Association $1.00 Six Months Advance In Payable $2.00 Capital $ 25,000.00 Surplus 235,000.00 Member; Advertising Kates Given on Application WESLEY ORSA B. CHERRY FREEDOM IN LAP STATES LOSE AGAIN OF CONGRESS Instances of unjustified regulatory oppression in the name of the war emergency, are acwith frightening cumulating more frightenEven rapidity. ing is the growing evidence that the citizen cannot seek relief from this oppression through the judiciary. Recent attempts to secure court review of War Labor Board decisions and OPA price decrees have revealed that the emergency laws creating such agencies are so drawn as to either deny recourse to the regular courts, or as in the case of violation of retail price regu lations, make of the courts mere instruments of harsh enforcement. If a retail merchant violates a price rule, the minimum penalty has been a $50 fine plus lawyers fee and costs, because that is what the Emergency Price Control Act calls for. The courts have held that according to this law it doesnt matter if the overcharge is as little as on cent, or if it occurred admittedly through an honest mistake of the merchant or his employe. The good faith of the merchant has nothing to do with it. The fine is still $50. Thus every petty snoop aod shyster lawyer in the country is encouraged to search for the inadvertant penny mistakes of retailers, with the assurance of a rich reward for each mistake found. One judge, in passing sentence under this travesty of democratic government, stated: If there is any element of justice, morality or right in compelling a respectable and honest merchant such as the defendant in this case, at such a time as the present when experienced clerks are scarce and hard to obtain, to pay a penalty of $50 for an innocent mistake of ten cents by an inexperienced clerk, in which the employer who is so mulcted had no part whatever, I have failed to discover it." The war emergency and fear of inflation have driven the country to the verge of despotism. Congress is the last official body to whom the people can turn for relief. It can rewrite the laws and curb the of administrative authority now agencies threatening the foundation of American free- The press has widely condemned a recent split decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that insurance is interstate commerce and subject laws. to the The New York Times, in commenting on the decision, says: Until now, all insurance has been state regulated. The effect of the present decision is that many companies will find themselves unless Congress now intervenes with a special exemption compelled b y state law; to do what they are forbidden to do under the Sherman cannot law. They have rate regulation and unrestricted competition at the same time. Associate Justice Jackson, in a dissenting opinion, pointed out that: The Courts decision at the very least will require an extensive overhauling of state legislation. . .What will be irretrievably lost and what will be salvaged no one can now say, and it will take a generation of litigation to determine. . The recklessness of such a course is emphasized when we consider that Congress has not one line of legislation deliberately designed to take over Federal responsibility for this important and complicated enterprise. . . A poorer time to thrust upon for Congress the necessity framing a plan for nationalization of insurance control would be hard to find. As the Portland Oregonian observes: The vista of Federal power and regimentation widens day by day. dom. HOME FRONT, 1944 Federal Reserve System CHERRY Editor Publisher anti-tru- anti-tru- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation BURN UTAH'S RESOURCE'S st st GOOD NEWS Seven months after the government took possesion of 3,000 bituminous coal mines, they have been turned back to their private owners. In releasing the mines, the Secretary of the Interior said: Management and labor are now on trial to prove to the nation that they can fulfill wartime responsibilities under their own power. The Secretary should hove added that government labor policies are also on trial because the governments vacilating attitude on labor caused much of the discord. Both the mine owners and the miners can be thankful that the mines are again operating as private enterprises, and if they ' odd- - are wise they will do every- from their applications.a As it is distinct they are rendering thing in their power to settle disservice to prothemselves, any future disputes without proin and, policyholders spective for excuse governviding an ment seizure of the mines, for particular, the commercial air that destroys the freedom of transport business, which has both the worker and the mine rolled up an impressive record owner. for efficiency and safety. LIFE INSURANCE AND AIR TRAVEL THE END OF THE ROAD The U. S. News, after the effect of current tax laws on business, concludes that neither individuals nor corporations can be expected to risk money, increase production and provide jobs until tax rates are lowered. The rewards, in general, are too small for the chances to be taken. It adds, however, that any plan to reduce taxes bumps up against the hard fact that the Treasury must have revenue and vast amounts of it to pay interest on the national debt, to care for veterans, to maintain an army and navy, and finally, to operate the regular grcernment departments. For years, the trend has been toward higher and higher taxes against productive enterprise. The war has hastened the trend until at last the end of the road has been reached. It is useless to cry for liigher taxes against industry. The money isnt there. From now on the bills of the Federal government will be paid by a majority of the people instead of a minority. And that goes for the debt too. Whenever a politician announces that the government is going to do this or that for the people, he really means that government is going to tax the people to do it. The government is not Santa Claus, it is merely the tax collector, and the people are beginning to realize it. an-alzi- Many of the life insurance companies of this country have discriminated against those on the regularly traveling scheduled commercial airlines. have Some of the leaders amended application blanks, but the majority still ask the prospective purchaser of life insurance if he intends to take ascensions in the future or if he has taken an aerial flight as a passenger on a commercial airline during the past year. In view of the figures given in the annual report of the Civil Aeronautics Board for 1943 in which they state that there were 1.5 fatalities per million hundred passenger miles, it would seem that air transportation has taken its place among the leaders in safe means of travel. If one compares the average rate for the past five years of 2.3 for he airline as against the consistent 4.0 of automobile travel generally, it might be said that airline travel is almost twice as safe as travel on the highways. Three weeks ago the National Safety Council awarded honor certificates to 16 airlines for having carried passengers one billion and a quarter miles in 1943 without a fatal accident. It is hard to understand why the life insurance companies still persist in including these scare clauses in their application blanks. Since in the future, business men will travel by air to an increasing extent, insurance companies would certainly find it advantageous to themselves to eliminate scheduled air travel considerations their fare-payin- g industry was efficient alive enough to disand enough cover, produce, and develop oil and America in reserves throughout the world, to provide an oil arsenal for two world wars. American oil men know more about oil than any other group in the world. The record proves that. Government restrictions which discourage or prohibit the normal operation and growth of the oil industry as an independent, free enterprise, will threaten the future of the United States far more seriously than theoretical shortages of oil reserves. ican oil DAIRYMEN FEEL BUREAUCRATIC TOUCH Charles W. Holman, Secretary of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, advocates the passage of legislation to curb abuses by government agencies of the regulatory powers they administer. He said: These abuses are corrupting even the little bureaucrats in Washington and transforming them into By means of government by regulation, the long tenous lines of Federal control reach into every rural community and every agricultural trade, from production through processing to distribution. super-bureaucra- GOOD ADVICE The public has become so used to constantly improved service with steadily declining rates in the field of public utilities, that it overlooks the predicament of many public service companies. Former United States Senator Arthur E. Nelson, of St. Paul, Minn., illustrates the situation by citing the problem of the smaller telephone companOIL FACTS AND THEORIES ies serving an area of approxis An American writer of the United and mately on reMiddle States. East He the authority points out that the cently remarked: Whether one Federal wage and hour law may likes or dislikes free enterprise shortly increase labor costs and private capital, one must honestly admit that the Amer- - alone by 33 3 per cent, while taxes and all other operating DR. H. CRANDALL expense mount steadily. DENTIST Many public utili.ty companies under drastic public reguSALINA UTAH lation, have been fearful of askreturn for the necessary ing their services. The Senator Office Hours: shows that managements must 12 9 to a. m. - 1:30 to 6 p. m. go before regulatory bodies and in increases necessary justify order to prevent the elimination of operating concerns absolutely Make Chain For Farm Uses To provide necesary chain indispensible to the welfare of the nation. for farm uses, the WPB has issued instructions to chain manuLABORS TURN NOW facturers on filling orders for serving A few years ago when indus- suppliers and dealers trial empires were crumbling in the farm trade. Chain that the the depression, the ears of man- WPB expects to keep available includes harness chain, wagon agement rang with the accusations of extremists who charged chain, cow ties, tie outs, halter in effect that every corporation chain, log chain under was out to mulct the public. The inch, and repair and lap links. sensible retort that the misdeeds Calls For Shipyard Workers of a few promoters did not warthousand additional Fifty rant general condemnation of workers are needed to shipyard on ears. fell deaf industry, Punitive laws and tax measures meet the ship consrtuction needs were enacted that still handicap for European and Far Eastern Operations, Vice Admiral Emory many businesses. The stupidity of a generalized S. Land, Chairman of the United attack on any segment of Amer- States Maritime Commission and ican life is again emphasized in War Shipping Administrator, anthe recent complaint of a labor nounced. Every man or woman who is able to work in a shipspokesman who cried: We have seen American newspapers, as yard, and not at present ema class, build prejudice against ployed in essential war work, labor unions, not by seeking should report at once to the out and dealing with the real nearest United States Employsins in some of them, but by ment Service office for enrollof one ment in this most essential treating the cent of time lost through work, he said. per wildcat strikes as if these microscopic work stoppages repreBuy MORE War Bonds sented general sabotage of the war effort." Generalized attacks on Labor are wrong but then so are generalized attacks against industry, to say nothing of attacking the press as a prejudiced class. Labor is now getting a dose of the same bitter medicine that it helped dish out. one-ha- one-quart- lf er 6,-4- 0 Help Bomb The Japs! two-third- The Lost is Found By Our Want Ads When you lose n advertise They Dont Stay Lost Jot netvlt? Long By COLLIER AC vjoaK C, SO DOLLARS Tr.t OF-Tti- c C0ffrA"6l ' ' SAID GOODBYE TO THE T ARM, SOLD THEIR HORSE FOR AT Hi Mount Vernon, Ohio r J? KING THE COUNTRY WJ 5 DEVELOPMENT' the company progressed rom proves, plows,, carding HU--r ' d MACHINES TO POWER MACHINERY. Built the first steam loco- - MOTIVE WEST OF Trtt AlUGHCNiE S. Then the first .successful steam tractor I The PRODUCER DUTY 17 ' COOPER-BE5SEME- CoRP. TOWN IS A MAJOR 1944 r&PAze jr W7y QF JJ'WVSrfi41 TH- - PROGRESS Ctescl Zane mr AATru I RURAL' Personally, I think it will be tco nihiorrires a:e all gone extinct like dodos. Take a man like Henry W. Putnam, who died a few years ago and left twenty million dollars lie bad made out of lightning fruit jars and lightning stoppers. I think a man who made life easier for millions of women was entitled to a few million dollars. Mr. Putnam didn't bleed anybody more than a fraction of a cent profit on each of his lightning jars and stoppers. And lie had harmless fun with his millions. For one thing, he took time to memoriae every line of every play of Shakespeare. And he had a yacht. Mr. Putnam gave $3,000,000 to a hospital in Bennington, Vermont, and paid its annual deGcit of from $30,000 to $30,000. Three universities will eventually share about ten million when Mr. Putnams cousins dig. I wonder, if we stop millionaire! in America, if anvfcoJy wi'l bother t'L-.'to tl ink up s as lightning fruit jars and storp.rs. bad v hen AND SET UP A FOUNDRY ,-- H EXFfiVCHHG MOWCPAl AM OF HEAVY LnGINES tj m f&tADf MEMBefS OF the hjdePemdejjce mo., &7PEET PePMfTMeur ECKJfjD SI I&4TIV BffTtPSD UPR&tfr PiMHO V 7W MIPU.E OF THE STREET THFPPit FATHER HAMLET ACCORSt OF CINCINNATI IN cat? MWIE THEATER WSTAUEP .SPECIAL "CRpMS HAS A ZOOM FOR CHILDREN Glass enclosed SOUND atp PROOF OJLVMAnH IN THE CAN TRANSLATE IETTEPS PtoH A NATNE TRIBE W AFRCA-ZS- Ofc HE KVH0OM |