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Show Fare TIIE UTAH STATESMAN 2 THE UTAH STATESMAN A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government" HARRY B. MILLER, Publisher H. V. WRIGHT, Editor Friday, February 21, Dawson Reports NO COMMENT CONGRESS SHOWS INTEREST IN RECIPROCAL TRADE PROGRAM By James W. Douthat WASHINGTON Congress and Phone EM ' administration now are Office at Post Salt Lake City, the matter the Class as at Entered 2nd plagued with demands for resort Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879 421 Church Street 1958 By Rep. William A. Dawson introMany Congressmen are showing interest in legislation I to remedies which duced this week which would make major changes in our reciproSubscription rate $1.00 per year have failed in the past. cal trade and tariff program. I originally drafted and introduced Published weekly at 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah increased year by These include various pump- this measure in 1955. Interest in the bill has NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 1958 priming schemes, interference year as more sections of our country and more segments of our price-wag- e relationships, and economy are hit too hard by foreign competitors wielding an unVol. 12; No. 8 Friday, February 21, 1958 with abandonment of sound govern- fair advantage. ment finance. EXTENDS ACT Fast Cars Slow Changes The proposals spring In part My proposal would extend our reciprocal trade program from the inevitable desire of some just as requested by President Eisenhower. Our prosperity departy members out of power, in pends upon a thriving trade with other nations and the Presithis case the Democrats, to seek dent must have the power to negotiate trade agreements. My political advantage. But they also bill does, however, make a major change, in procedures that are reflect the readiness of New-Fai- r with business to of seize Deal to be followed when domestic industries can prove that foreign groups any Part of the price we pay for our system government, to their Big imports are doing them serious damage. promote its division of authority between the states and the federal gov- disturbance asAnd Government philosophy. ESCAPE CLAUSE ernment, is the painfully slow process by which improvements sorted are atgroups advanUnder present procedures, an industry that is threatened can be put into nation-wid- e practice. Even though the tempting to arouse their forces needed to win of are pub- in an effort to discredit Ameri- with extinction as a result of low cost labor competition from a tages of a change are obvious, years ter and the action gover- can business and the free enter- foreign industry can appeal to the Tariff Commission for help. lic acceptance and arouse legislatures by prise system. The Tariff Commission gathers the facts and makes its recomnors of all the states. news mendations to the President. Under the law, the President has How this time-laWhat Will Congress Do? operates is illustrated by a recent to become the Whether will Dakota the right to restrict foreign imports or increase the tariffs coverCongress yields item reporting that, starting in 1958, North now will exerted being pressures vehicles. for automotive reflective the seventh state to issue ing the items doing injury to domestic companies. In the past, plates it depend,appears, upon largely colrear-end the President has failed to act on many of the Tariff CommisThis is a step toward the reduction of after dark the fortitude of the Eisenhower lisions one of the most frequent types of traffic mishaps that administration ' and the congres- sions findings. As a result, many industries have had to dose seems so simple and obvious that it is difficult to understand why sional champions of free enter- their doors. both Democrats and Reprise NEW APPROACH all the states have not adopted it. bill would Maine has been using reflective plates since 1949. Since publicans. My give the final say on tariff modifications to The Eisenhower administration Congress where it belongs. Instead of making its recommendathen they also have been adopted by Delaware, Louisiana, Wy number A Dakota. pasitio ncontlnues to be that the tions to the President, the Tariff Commission would report directoming, Minnesota, South Dakota and North recession will be- shortto Its proposed trade restrictions to save a domestic of other states, including New York, are conducting tests that present that there will be an up ly Congress. lived would to their lead adoption. automatically go into effect unless a majority may turn during the year that the industry Because such accidents often are caused by a car ramming economy will spiral upward to of either the House or Senate voted to overrule them. I am confident that had this procedure been in effect during the from behind another vehicle that has poor warning lights, it is new heights. past three is administration The' rear-enposition dark. after collisions occur d It most our that lead and zinc miners would not now be out of work. not surprising the budget can and should re- years, is then that cars without lights or lights that have failed are al- that TRADE OR AID main in balance and that there most impossible to see and the number of rear end collisions in should not be a resort to a new think that the only Alternative to increased trade Many creases. era of deficit financing. through lower U. S. tariffs is increased foreign aid. This is not Remedies Some can reflective material with license that a Proposed plates By surfacing necessarily the case. Vast fortunes have been made by foreign Deal groups, how- nationals The New-Fai- r be seen by an approaching car at 2000 feet, North Dakota is exploiting low wage foreign workers in producing for ever are now gathering forces for built-i- n device that is vehicle U.S. with a the consumer. I want the American worker to share in our safety providing every an extension of federal controls naA recent and spending in many directions. consumer market and until wage levels overseas are more comespecially valuable when rear lights ae defective. tional check of more than 1,667,000 vehicles showed that more There include: parable to those paid here, the worker and his boss are entitled federal Demands that public to tariff protection. I than a fourth 26.6 percent of all defects were in rear lights. be works up including stepped Law enforcement officers find the reflective plates helpful, HOOVER COMMISSION the building of federal hydrodiem for is too. License numbers are easier to spot and it easier Congress and the Administration are doing a electric power plants, accelerated good to read the plates of approaching cars at night. Thus, they say, road building, more public assist- job of adopting the money saving recommendations ofpretty the Hoover ance, higher social security bene- Commission. Since the Commission submitted its final they can chedc more stolen vehicle numbers. report With their obvious value in enabling motorists to see a slow fits, and the like. on June 30, 1955, 210 recommendations have been A concerted drive has opened to or stopped vehicle in time to avoid a collision, why are they not enact or with minor modifications and 173 have been accepted wholly to to states force legislation accepted used by more states? They can be produced readily by the same increase unemployment insurance partially. This represents 77 of the recommendations and we state agencies making plates, so the answer must benefits to 39 weeks and to a level are still working on the rest. of the state's be their slight additional cost from 25 cents to 50 cents per set equal to UTAH FOUNDATION . wage. average weekly Thats a small price for the saving of even a few lives and one to perredoubled Others efforts (Continued from page 1) that motorists will be more than willing to pay for the protection suade Congress to embark give a somewhat misleading picupon Utah Foundation of themselves and their families. And they have saved lives in the huge school - building programs, study of federal ture since the element of "overhead" for federal administration seven states. and to enlarge housing subsidies. was the conclusion reached in the is not included in the costs. aid in Utah. Radical Methods Feared Some members of Congress In fact, the foundations report Last Week economic advisers are fear- points out that most of the trends and Washington ful that a resort to radical me- and the pressures have been in to unlimited deficit spend- the opposite direction. For exthod ing, to jump priming schemes, ample, more than 1,000 bills afANTI-RECESSIto encouragement of higher wages fecting relations will make were introduced in the 1957 sesand labor monolopy sion of the U.S. Congress. Most of SUPREME COURT: Was in recess Monday, its usual opinion recovery more difficult. Two questions have arisen these proposals tended to infringe day. whether the Eisenhower Adminis- further upon the powers and preTRADE: The House Ways and Means Committee opened tration itself will fall prey to radi- rogatives of the state and local hearings Monday on President Eisenhowers request for extension cal spending schemes, and wheth- governments. er Congress will inaugurate them finance of the reciprocal trade program. such grants. Last year, even in the face of Administration state The House-Senat- e Economic Commitand local units in Utah reopposition. session Monday on Administration plans Tax Reduction Sentiment Gains ceived $181 in federal aid for each tee held a closed-doo- r THE MILDER BOURSCN for aiding economic recovery. One big change in congressional $100 in federal taxes paid by to Utahns these grants. provide Kentucky ECONOMIC: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Martin testi- sentiment is the increasing de- Foundation officials warn, how- 86 Proof Straight SourbonDist.Whiskey 6 Yrs. Old CAncient Age Co., Frankfort, Ky. fied Wednesday before a Senate Banking Committee on the gen- mand for tax reduction. that this can ever, comparison This sharp change in attitude eral economic situation' and Federal Reserve policies. has taken place in a perREGULATORY AGENCIES: A House Commerce subcom- iod. Whether the demand wil mittee continued its investigation into alleged misconduct by some snowball and force congressiona action before adjournment is at members of Government Agencies. PAY: The Senate was expected to begin debate last week on this time uncertain. A possibility was forseen of an bills to increase the pay of Federal employes and postal workers. t battle between advocates RAILROADS: A Senate Commerce subcommittee resumed of the principles of the tax reduction bill, and Monday its study of the railroads financial situation. d the ultraproposals of FOREIGN AID. The House Foreign Affairs Committee liberals. .Tuesday began hearings on closed-doo- r testimony on extension of The bill calls for the foreign aid program. tax reduction for both corporate FEDERAL-STATE- : Treasury Secretary Anderson and Gov. and individual income taxpayers. Dwinnell of New Hampshire testified Tuesday before a House It would reduce the high and discriminatory rates and thus free Government Operations subcommittee studying Federal-stat- e funds for investment in business expansion. anti-recessio- n Automobile Accident Rate Rises; Are Reflective Plates Needed? left-win- g g - - non-reflecti- ve two-thir- ds reflective-license-pla- te SUPREME COURT, TRADE, PAY IN NEWS federal-state-loc- ON ANTI-RECESSIO- al N: six-wee- k all-ou- Sadlak-Herlon- g self-style- Sadlak-Herlon- g a |