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Show Page 2 September 14. 1956 THE UTAH STATESMAN THE MA UTAH Party Platforms Give Views Of Political Administrations STATESMAN Weekly Newspaper Devoted te (Seed Government" Don Ware. Editor Edwin W. Kain, Advertising Manager 421 Church Street Phone EM . 4-3- Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City. Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate $1.00 per year Published weekly at 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, Vol. 10; No. 36 September 1956 14, 1956 Editorial A New Leader If the results of Tuesdays primary election indicates anything, they indicate that Mr. George Dewey Clyde will soon be Governor George Dewey Clyde. Republican votes cast in Utah outnumbered the democrat votes by over 20,000. Mr. Clyde is a man who has had little political experience. But he does have a great deal of practical, sound experience which will enable him to increase the industrial and economic expansion of Utah. e As a candidate for the Republican nomination and as a late entry into the state gubernatorial running, Mr. Clydes election Tuesday indicates that the people of the state have a great deal of faith in him. and inHe has drawn nothing but praise for his telligent handling of the states Water and Power Board. As a former engineer and college professor, Mr. Clyde has the knowledge necessary to make Utah one of the nations leading industrial areas. Party Platforms Political party platforms are often brushed off as meaningless convention and campaign trivia. This may well be, but they usually can be depended upon as weather vanes, showing which way the political winds blow. Planks in both party platforms cover issues of interest to newspaper publishers, such as postal matters, minimum wage, etc. Interest by the two major parties in these issues forecasts activity in these areas in the next Congress. far-sight- ed A Negro Looks atIntegration hare-braine- racial-minglin- long-standi- methods. old-fashion- service We have improved across the country in hundreds of ways. We have extended city carrier srvice to millions of new homes in thousands of urban and suburban communities which have grown and spread under the favorable economic conditions brought about by the Eisenhower Administration. We have reinspired the morale n our employes through new programs of promotion based on ability, job trainPostal Service ing, and safety, and through our Lengthy planks on the postal sponsorship of increased pay and service appear in both platforms. fringe benefits. The positions of the two parties We have adopted the most coincide with the positions taken modern methods of transportadurin leaders Congress by party tion, recent consideration of the acounting and cost control, ing and other Rerate increase bill. The operating procedures; postal publicans claim vast improve- (through them we have saved ments in the postal service and many millions of dollars a year call for increased postage rates for more nearly postal service. The Democrats dispute the improvements and. advocate operation of the post office as a public service. The texts of the two planks on the postal service are as follows: a self-sustaini- Democratic Platform Restoring the efficiency of the Postal Service. The bungling policies of the Republican Administration have crippled and impaired the morale, efficiency and reputation of the United States Postal Service. Mail carriers and clerks and other postal employees are compelled to work under intolerable conditions; communications by mail and service by parcel post have been delayed and retarded with resulting hardships, business losses and inconveniences. Their false concept of economy has impaired seriously the efficiciency of the best system in the d white mobs at Clinton, Tenn., communication At this time when world. and Sturgis, Ky., have required restraint by the National Guard, We pledge ourselves to prog and much of the country has gained the impression that grams which will: (1) Restore the principle that is the universal ambition of negroes, we would like to the Postal Service is a public quote Davis Lee, negro editor of a national Negro newspaper, service to be operated in the inTHE NEWARK (NJ.) TELEGRAM. The following is from his terest of improved business econrecent editorial, You Cant Eat Integration: omy and better communication as n has stirred issue This integration-segregatioup bitterness, well as an aid to the disseminafirendships. tion of information and intellihatred, prejudices, and has destroyed But, strange as it may seem, fifty per cent of the Negroes are gence. (2) To restore postal employee not concerned about it either way. morale through the strengthening The liberals are frothing at the mouth and shedding croc- of the merit system promotions odile tears over the plight of the poor Negro in the South, will by law rather than caprice or partisan politics. Payment of realistic gladly give him integration, but wont give' him a job or provide salaries reflecting the benefits of his family with clothing or bread. an expended economy. The Southerners dont want to have integration, but they (3) Establish a program of rehis feed clothe and and a him will gladly give family. search and development on a scale help job The liberals will open their schools to Negro children, but adequate to insure the most modern and efficient handling of the they wont hire many Negroes as teachers. The South wont ad- mails. mit Negro children to its schools, but they will give the Negro (4) Undertake modernization his own school manned by teachers of his own race. And all of and undertake and construction of desperately this is given to him without cost. needed postal facilities designed huThere are forms of segregation that are degrading and to insure the finest postal system miliating, but to have ones own school and teachers is not one in the world. of them. Giving the Negro his own school and teachers is more Republican Platform in keeping with that concept of freedom, justice and equal opIn the last four years, under portunity that the founding fathers had in mind than is an ineducation. of direction from President Eisentegrated system to hower for for He time Mr. Lee pleads improve the postal servadjustment. ample points ice and reduc costs, we have out that the South has never attempted to tell the rest of the modernized and revitalized the nation how to run its affairs, and in so section of the country postal establishment from top to does the Negro enjoy the educational, employment and economic bottom, inside and out. We have undertaken and substantially opportunities which he enjoys in the South. The labor unions, he notes, are pouring thousands of completed the largest reorganizadollars into this integration movement, yet Southern Negroes are tion ever to take place in any unit of business or government: working at jobs that Northern Negroes can not get, because the We have provided more than unions will not accept them as members. There are more Negro 1,200 badly needed new Post Ofand building contractors in North and fice carpenters, brick-layebuildings, and are adding South Carolina than there are in the 53 integrated states. two more every day. We are using Negroes cant eat integration. They need jobs. They need the very latest types of industrial the opportunity to develop their talents . . . The South is the equipment where practicable; and, only section of this nation that offers such opportunities. If these through a program of research liberals and agitators are the Negros friends and Southern and engineering, we are inventnew mechanical and elecwhites are his enemies, then someone needs to protect him from ing tronic devices to speed the movehis friends. ment of mail by eliminating dark-hors- tedious of half-millio- for the taxpayers while advancing the delivery of billions of letters a day or more all this while enormous the deficit of reducing the department from its all time high of almost three quarters of a billion dollars in 1952 to less than half that amount in 1955. We pledge to continue our efforts, blocked by the Democratic leadership of the Eighty-fourt- h Congress, for a financially sound, more nearly postal service with the users of the mails paying a grater share of the costs instead of the taxpayers bearing the burden of huge postal self-sustaini- deficits. We pledge to continue and to complete this vitally needed program of modernization of building, equipment, methods and on this problem during the 84th Congress, was a member of the plaform committee. He probably was influential in the drafting of the following: During recent years there has developed a practice on the part of Federal agencies to delay and withhold information which is needed by Congress and the general public to make important decisions . affecting their lives and destiny. We believe that this trend toward secracy in Government should be reversed and that the Federal Government should return to its basic tradition of exchanging and promoting the freest flow of information possible in those unclassified areas where secrets involving weapons development and bonafide national security are not involved. We condemn the Eisenhower administration for the excesses practiced in this vital area, and pledge the Democratic Party to reverse this tendency, substituting a rule of law for that of broad claims of executive privilege. We our 1952 to of' position 'press strongfreedom in the ly for world-widgathering and dissemination of news. We shall press for free access to information throughout the world for our journalists and re-av- er e service so that the American people will receive the kind of mail the speediest and they deserve best that American ingenuity, scholars. technology and modern business Social Security management can provide. On social security, the RepubFreedom of Information licans point with pride to recent The Democratic Party plank on changes. The Democrats promise freedom of information is ex- more and greater benefits with-otremely critical of the Eisenhower mentioning increased tax asAdministration. Rep. John Moss sessments which would certainly (D., Calif.), who held hearings be necessary. ut ng Formula for Prosperity Americans enjoy the worlds highest standard of living because they produce more than the people of any other country. That's the formula greater production for higher eamings. Without the production, higher earnings result in inflation that hurts everyone. UTAH MINING ASSOCIATION "From the earth comes an abundant life for alt GOOD GOVERNMENT IS EVERYBODY'S JOB! Subscribe now to THE UTAH STATESMAN "A weekly newspaper devoted to good government" and keep pace witb local state and national government news. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 3 year $1.00 years $2.00 CIRCULATION OFFICE 421 Clutch Street - Salt lab City. Utah rs NAME t rrf naaemi, i m.a.ti.ii.i,. ADDRESS CITY STATE Remittance Bill me later |
