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Show March, 1967 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS Page 2 nnif VI mm J qT I .17? Jf ft nlL a; f T3C7 J D lU J J yAVl Ul S N 1 S I ClL J CJVj Dl C--TTl UU V- - Me grn jH lfVlLC WS Top Award For Public Address Published toch month by the Utah State Form Bureau Federation at Salt lake City, Utah. Editorial and Business Office, 629 East Fourth South, Salt lake City, Utah. POSTMASTER: Please address PO Form 3569 to PO Bo 11668, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 1. Subscription price of twenty-fiv- e cents per year to members is included in matter March 24, 1948 at the Post Office class membership fee. Entered as second ot Salt Lake City, Utah under act of March 3, 1879. Mrs. Smith Receives Medal 1 From Freedoms Foundation UTAH STATE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION OFFICIALS Elmo W. Hamilton, Riverton, Utah S. Jay Child, Clearfield, Utah Mrs. Willis Whitbeck, Bennion, Utah V. Allen Olsen Kenneth J. Rice President Vice President Chairman, Farm Bureau Women Executive Secretary Mrs. Haven Smith of Nebraska, chairman of the American Farm Bureau Womens Committee, has received the highest award presented by Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, for a public address made Editor DIRECTORS Alden K. Salt Lake City Salt Luke City Barton Mark Nichols Dr. W. H. Bennett Glenn Dr. D. during 1966. Mrs. Smith received a George Washington honor medal and a check for $500 at the awards ceremony held in Valley Forge on February 22. Logan Logan Logan Baird, Jr Wynne Thorne T. DIRECTORS Mrs. Willis Whitbeck. Farm Bureau Women; Mrs. Paul Nelson, Farm Bureau Women; Jan Turner, Farm Bureau Young People; William Wood, Beaver; A. Alton Hoffman, Cache; Lloyd Olsen, Cache; Ferris Allen, North Box Elder; William C. Dause, Carbon; S. Jay Child, Davis; Joseph Kemp, Duchesne; Kenneth Brasher, Emery; Carl Hatch, Garfield; Richard Nelson, Iron; Roy Bowles, Juab; Isaac Chamberlain, Kane; Leo Robins, Millard; Mark Thackeray, Morgan; Ambrose Dulton, Piute; Robert Rex, Rich; Elmo Hamilton, Salt Lake; Arion Erekson, Salt Lake; Ashton Harris, San Juan; Lee Barton, Sanpete; Grant Money, Sevier,- D. O. RobT. Eldon Emer Don Utah; DeMar A. Wilson, Wasatch; Utah; Jack Uintah; Allen, Tooele; Brown, Money, Dudley, erts, Summit; Don F. Schmutz, Washington; Hugh King, Wayne; William C. Holmes, Weber; Carl Fowers, Weber; John P. Holmgren, South Bo Elder; Gay Pettingill, Utah Horticultural Society; John Roghaar, Intermounluin Farmers Assn.; Virgil H. Peterson, Utah Sugar Beat Growers Assn.; Tom Lowe, Utah Canning Crops Assn.; Joe I. Jacobs, Producers Livestock Marketing Assn.; J. R. Garrett, Norbest Turkey Growers Assn.; H. M. Blockhurst, Country Mutual Life. Rockefellers at the Trough Of all the regiments called up by the Federal Government to make war on poverty, the Head Start program for pre-scho-ol youngsters has received the most praise. While not exactly giving underprivileged children a head start, it does provide them more of sin even start Aside from any political philosophy considerations, the ideal of providing this chance to break the poverty cycle is commendable indeed. To a child who has known nothing but grinding poverty, think what a wonder it must be to eat a nutritious hot breakfast and lunch-- to discover another world! Yet, as it apparently must in any progrEim established and run by bureaucrats and job seekers, even die Head Start program harbors the seeds of corruption. As strange as it may seem, a loophole in the law also permits children from our affluent society to participate in the program. A young Rockefeller can eat (breakfast and lunch) at the government trough. The loophole: 10 percent of enrollees in a given school dislimit on family wealth trict can be from privileged families-n- o or income. Since it takes at least 15 enrollees to constitute - a class unit a summer job for a school teacher) ( or, put another way some local school districts can help provide more summer jobs in the Head Start program by legally enrolling children from families. Children of the poor cannot help their staus. It is an accident of birth. But, it does seem a pity to make affluent children-som-e, labels in their clothers-sta- rt perhaps with Neiman-Marcu- s life as wards of the government It's not the best training non-pover- ty for adulthood. KSL Guest Editorial 37th Utah Legislature The 1966 elections gave Utah for its 37th Legislature a body as dominated by one party as any in the history of the state. Those elections expressed nationally, as well as in Utah, the distrust of the American public for politicEd platforms which stray too far from a moderate middle course. For the most part, the 37th Utah Legislature showed that it had learned this lesson. The Legislature kept its promise to hold the line on taxes. It moved to meet the needs of education and took the first needed steps for judicial reform. It proposed constitutional amendments which would permit repeal of inventory taxes and tax assessment of farm lands on their real rather than speculative value. The Legislature provided for needed increases in the Highway Patrol and for many necessary changes in the drivers licensing procedures, and air pollution controls. And some very helpful changes were made in the laws relating to drink and e program for city or county jail prisdriving. The oners will prove a boon in the administration of justice. In balance, a prodigious amount that was commendable was accomplished. On behalf of the people of Utah, KSL thanks the Legislators who gave so generously of themselves to the service of the State. A number of measures of questionable value were passed. Some of doubtful constitutionality. It is hoped, however, the test of these will be determined by the courts not by gubernatorial veto. HER AWARD, the highest of over 50 by the Foundation made Burton Discusses Firearm Controls MRS. HAVEN SMITH As he did In 1965 and 1966, the President has again requested firearms control legislation. His February 6 message to Congress on crime contained a statement on firearms control that appears reasonable at first glance, at least with respect to shotguns and rifles; although he apparently thinks New Yorks fifty-si- x year old Sullivan Law should be a model for handgun legislation In other states. He didnt say whether he also thought New Yorks crime rate should be a model for other states. Following the Presidents message, Senator Thomas Dodd and Congressman Emanuel Introduced the AdCeller (D-Con- n.) (D-N.- Y.) ministrations firearms control bills, S.l ( as amended) and H.R.' 5384 respectively. Although the Presidents message appeared reasonable at first glance, these bills did not. Moreover, further study uncovered nothing to convince me that they deserve my sup- port. The preambles to these Adminbills will raise the hackles of decent, law -- abiding citizens who own and use sporting firearms. They include statements such as, that the ease with which any person can acquire firearms is a significant factor in the prevalence of lawlessness and violent crime in the United States, that there is a causal re- and. istration ... for public addresses during the past year, was presented for her talk on Our Cherished Freedoms," which she made on April 7, 1966, at a homemaking symposium sponsored by Utah State University and radio station KSL of Salt Lake City. The symposium was held at Highland High Sch1 ln Salt Uke C'ty' EDITORS NOTE is no surprise that the award to Mrs. Haven Smith comes as a result of the efforts of Barbara Whitbeck, KSL incorporated and others who brought Mrs. Smith's speech to the attention of Freedom's It Foundation. l&tionship between the easy availability of firearms and juvenile and youthful criminal behavior . . Getting back to President Johnsons recommendation of the Sullivan Law, it is interesting to compare rates in New York and Utah for the two. types of crime most commonly associated with firearms, murder and manslaughter and robbery. In the FBIs 1965 Uniform Crime Reports, these rates per 100,000 population ln 1965 were 4.6 and 61.3 in New York, 1.5 and 23.1 ln Utah. non-negllg- ent Also in that year, the rates were 6.1 and 83.9 in New York City, and 1.7 and 19.1 in Ogden, Utah. I would agree that we should try to lower these rates, but I cannot believe that a Sullivan Law is the way to do it. When one considers that the Sullivan Law has been operating in New York for some fifty-si- x years, and that Utah has never had the benefit of such the relationcausal legislation, ship between firearms and crime appears hard to establish. It seems to me that the use of a firearm is only one way in which a criminal can assert power over other citizens who are unarmed or otherwise unprotected. The easy availability of a weapon is undoubtedly a factor in crimes of impulse, but every household contains weapons that can be used if firearms are not available. To single out one type of weapon as a cause of of crime is oversimplification an extremely complex problem, and is no more accurate than viewing the bookkeepers pen as the cause of an embezzlement. We Americans are prone to react violently when we are shocked Into It. The rash of anti-gu- n and legislation with sentiment which the Congress has been besieged ever since the brutal assassination of President Kennedy is but one example of this tendAnother example is the ency. reaction of equally some against any form of firearms control. Obviously, the public needs to be protected from violence with firearms at the hands of the criminal, the insane, and the stupid. Yet we should not permit such protection to negate the rights of those who would use firearms (Continued on page 3) 4M U work-releas- 0 OF FEDERAL LAND BANKS proclamation is signed by Governor Calvin L Rampton. Witnessing the signing are: George Brown, left. Area Supervisor for Utah's Federal Land Bank Associations and LeGrand Jarman, Director of the Provo Federal Land Bank Association. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY |