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Show The Enterprise Review , November 17, 1976 Page 15b byD. Van de Graaff Executive Director. Utah Petroleum Association Once upon a time. . .there was a wicked corporate president. He lived in a big house, flew around in a private corporate airplane and sent his laundry out. He was very wicked. In the same kingdom there was a handsome woodsman. He lived in a regular house, drove around in a car (EPA rated- - 21 Highway, 17 City) and sent his wife to the mid-size- d laundromat. Every workday, the handsome woodsman put on his blue collar and went woodsing. He liked his job; he liked the people he worked with and he liked to go golfing every weekend. Some other woodsmen complained a lot. They complained about many things, but mostly they complained about the wicked corporate president. They said that he was rich and impersonal, that he didnt pay his taxes, that he had too much power and influence and that he used the natural resources of the kingdom for his personal gain. The handsome woodsman disagreed. He said the corporate president used the natural resources to make that there were things everybody used, like golf balls of thousands people working for the president so they could houses cars and go to Disneyland. and buy But nobody listened. The handsome woodsman said the reason the corporate president was rich was because he risked his money on investments and contributed management skills to the economy. The others said it is not what you know, it's who you know. The woodsman said that if you raise the taxes of the corporate president that was one thing, but if you raised the taxes of the corporation that was something else. There would be less money available to plant rubber trees and to r buy golf ball making machines. Maybe the price of golf balls would go up to pay the taxes. They said the corporate president and the corporation were the same thing and that those who had more money should pay more taxes. Then they got angry. They asked the handsome woodsman, Are you for us or against us? Winter was coming and soon there would be snow on the golf course and the woodsman wanted to join the bowling league so he didn't say any more. One day they all went to the election and hired a new king. The new king didnt like the corporate president either, so he taxed the corporation and closed down the natural resources. The corporate president couldn't plant rubber trees so he didnt need as many woodsmen, he couldn't afford to buy new golf ball making machines, so when the old ones wore out he quit making golf balls. The king became really angry. He hired the woodsmen to work for the kingdom and said that as soon as he learned how, he would make his own golf balls. They would cost more because there were government expenses that had to be paid and because some of the workers didn't work as hard for the king as they did before, but someday there would be golf balls. Already there was a committee working on specifications. One day. the corporate president put on his white collar to go to the corporation. When he got there he found he didn't have a corporation anymore. So he sold his house, turned in the airplane, bought a washing machine and went to work for the king. Now everything was fair and equal. Everybody worked for the king. Nobody had an airplane. Everybody had a regular house. Nobody played golf. Everybody did their own laundry. Nobody went to Disneyland. Everybody lived unhappily ever after. BUT tot WAS V0O)6 ,OJ HUE AT TH5 TOUS- - MFAM AW A TV TED Bedtime Story or how we elected the wrong man SOASAIUST MV AM03MAO suppecp A Bad ne Bucks AMP SMV, PBETBdl? TO 10w. " muapuss, . WB)T aTrt l-5AI- i (0 THE AMP 0 A FORP A0PI5M A CARTER. m Di. i MRoieOF id (JM6 WBRMK-lti'l- so AT I M IMS'. KNOW FRAMMF. fraokib. AMYH3W. FRADWff GADTOlD SO ITS 0OT AS IF MT V0J5 CO DOTS. rue omiv wav MOT TO is demvep MAKE TO me rx)t CDUIOT UL, njr. fift? pAtfMftnnt Pragmatic Dogmatics Utahs Partisan Complexion by Kent Shearer asked is whether Utah is a Republican, Democratic, The question sometimes or Independent state. Based upon the record since 1948, the conclusion must be drawn that it is Independent tending Republican. During that period, 6 of 7 GOP Presidential nominees have received Utah's four electoral votes. Even the one loser, Barry Goldwater, did relatively well. His 45.1 of the total exceeded this years 44.8 percentage of the vanquished Frank E. Moss. Two of the four times after statehood that the Beehive State has voted for other than the national victor were in 1960 with Richard Nixon and this month with Gerald Ford. For the United States Senate, Republicans subsequent to 1948 have carved a 7 to 3 edge. In the First and Second Congressional Districts the GOP margin is reduced to 8 to 6. Only for Governor arc the Democrats on top: 4 to 3. That result is reversed for Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, which stands GOP 4 to 3. The Attorney Generalship, on the other hand, has been as Republican as the Presidential races: 7 to 1. Total the above, and the GOP spread over the Democrats is 43 to 24, or 64.2. What the hard statistics do not reflect, with the but bear upon them, .is that exception of an occasional AG candidate legal Democrats almost universally have depicted themselves as moderates. Nobody 66T equates, for instance, Cal Rampton or Scott Matheson with George McGovern or Jimmy Carter. Conversely, local Republicans with the possible exception of Sherm Lloyd have been programmed to be as conservative or moreso than all GOP Presidential nominees have Goldwater. When these contrasting approaches are considered, and the statistics duly measured, it is my thought that, whatever success Utah Democrats have gained in the is attributable to their past quarter-centur- y appeal to the moderates w hom they can add to their natural liberal to radical base. I further advance the proposition that Republicans would be even more successful in the future were they to wrest that moderate votp to reinforce the natural GOP conservative to reactionary constituency. |