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Show Pa9.e 2 September UTAH FARM BUREAU IT While reigning as PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE? The Constitution of the United States was accepted by the unanimous consent of the states present, September 17, 1787. Section 8 of Article i outlines the purposes for which tax funds should be used. It reads "to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States." The Preamble records the purpose for establishing the whole of the Constitution as follows: "to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and bur posterity The question that arises from the above is what is "welfare"? It should also be noted that welfare was designated "general welfare". ..." Government welfare programs would indicate that these terms are synonymous. The founding fathers had purpose in the term "general". They meant just that. What would help the general population, the individual members as a whole. This is the group the Constitutional Convention had an interest in. At several places in the Historical document, insertions were made to avoid individual benefit from government activities. " citizens suggest ways and means of helping Many the "poor" with money collected from others. What a great thing if poverty could be eliminated! Yes--i- t would be. But there is only one way for that to happen. Individual initiative has to play the major role in poverty eradication. A person who receives from another while he is able bodied is not benefited thereby. There are people who .give support, there are others who give their abundance, and there are still others who give from sources acquired through public taxes and take credit for the gift as though it were from private funds. Welfare recipients have been increasing at an alarming rate across the country. Aid to families with dependent children recipients increased 23 percent during 1969-7Total program cost increased during the same period by 26 percent. Medical assistance was up about 50 percent. California has experienced similar increases, while in New York, the welfare benefits are such that would-b- e recipients migrate there to improve the "take". Recently, Governor Rockefeller tried to obtain a year mandatory residency before such benefits could be received. From previous rulings in the courts, such legislation will likely be overturned. 1971 Illy Miss Weber County Jan Buck was asked the Are you really a question, queen? The young child didn't realize the significance of the thought. As Miss Buck addressed the 1971 Miss Weber County contestants and guests she responded to the question. A queen doesnt always wear a crown . . . and a crown doesnt always make a queen, she said. Every contestant can be a winner, she observed. A girl who enters a contest for such honors can be a better person. She will have learned to conduct herself as a queen, she will have matte new friends, her character will have been enlarged and a new realization of her individual im- School. Most of these organizations presented scholarships or other- been have will portance Neil Siimslon established. In suggesting these thoughts to the wise assisted to make the program successful. To the new queen, Miss Mary Alana Peterson, and her attendants, Miss Janet Eystone, First Attendant, and Miss Rosanne Shaw, Second Attendant, is the challenge to be the queens the 1970 queens were and to represent their county, area and the state the way gathering the full-hou- se audience learned again that Miss Jan Buck was and is indeed a Queen. The contest is sponsored annually by the Weber County Farm Bureau. Other organizations that cooperate in the affair include the Weber State College, Utah State D& University Extension Service, I Ml J jw should it be represented. Congratulations to each of you. "would-be-good- 0. M,s Jan Buck . . . Is a Queen, Nancie Berlin, Miss Congeniality . . . Queen 1970 Is a queen . Governor Ronald Reagan reports abuses in his state that are not unlike other states, only in quantity. For example, he reported in the U.S. News and World Report that a case worker must take the word of the recipient and provide benefits accordingly. In one case it was found after the recipient died that she had $88,000.00, a couple pieces of property, and a military pension from her deceased husband. Governor Reagan reports instances where department workers have put them-- selves on welfare. Once a program starts, no matter what good intention may have played a part in its inception, unless it is based on right principles and watched very carefully, it gets out of hand. Allan Grant, President of the California Farm Bureau, demonstrated how the law would permit a nonworking woman with three children to obtain a job for $1,000 per month and still draw $221 per month from welfare. With all the allowances provided in the regulations, the $1,000 is reduced for purposes of welfare to $105, thus enabling $221 more in payment from welfare funds. The circumstances of such programs across the country make little if any effort to require able bodied persons to work. These conditions beg the question, "What is the general welfare?" During the year 1969, taxes paid in Utah totaled $1,068,600,000. That is $1,036 per capita. On the other side of the ledger, the income per capita in Utah, 1969, was $2,997. Total welfare recipients in Utah totaled 45,213. Budgeted cost of about with one million people living in Utah, amounts to $34,000,000 for 1970-7a $34 cost per person just for public assistance. Is it general welfare for over one third of the per capita income to be taken from the workers and given to others? It is particularly revolting when the tax payer is forced to "contribute". This take from the "haves" to give the "have nots" is NDS not in the interest of the general welfare! 1, -- . . . are Queens Janet Eystone, 1st Attendant, Miss Mary A'lana Peterson, Miss Weber County and Miss Rosanne Shaw, 2nd Attendant. . UTAH FARM BUREAU fHl NEWS PubUshed each month by the Utah Farm Bureau Federation at Salt Lake City, Utah. Editorial and fiuaineia Office, 629 East Fourth South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102. Subscription price of twenty-fiv- e cents per year to members is included in membership fee. Second Class postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah UTAH FARM BUREAU FEDERATION OFFICIALS Elmo W. Hamilton, Riverton iich Neil D. Olsen Sumsion rKE?3fS: .i .. i'. Smithfield; AUDn HoW!Ta, AurorgVIArioMrHtiLjtiyfuPr-ingVIe- Aurora . . ci-rfi- id: ' .'i William Kene,,, Mrs. PruJnt . . 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