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Show I Friday, October SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD Page 2 FIRST. individual, under GoJ'cl awff, with certain unalienable rights. another textile mill had been refused a meter die by Pitney-Bowe- s. Spindale Mills in North Carolina had ordered a noncommercial slogan and was turned down. The slogan: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands, To put it briefly it would Entered as 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly on Friday. By Mail Payable in Advance Subscription Rates 1 in U.S.A., (3.50 Elsewhere in Utah, year, $3 Anywhere Single Copy, 10 cents Published Weekly at 2185 South 9th East IN 33 No. 43 Vol. 24 seem we have a lot of building up to do at home if we expect to combat Communism throughout the world and through our own strength Military strength is not enough, and drastic changes in a lot of our thinking is urgent for these things cant be accomplished over night. Editorial J. Edgar Hoover reports that fines, savings and recoveries in FBI investigated cases during the year ending last June 30 readied a new peak of $167,654,622, a figure which represents a return of $1.34 for every dollar appropriated for the agency. Employment of Students Poses Serious Problem for Retailers Retailers employ great of numbers young people who e attend school on a student basis, and work for limited periods in the afternoons, or evenings, on Saturdays, and during vacation full-tim- periods. This employment provides untrained youngsters with a source of income and, additionally, enables them to learn skills and responsibilities that will prove valuable in later life. But the newly: expanded federal Wage-Hou- r law, which includes retail workers for the first time, poses a serious problem. A statement by the American Retail Federation puts it this way: We are convinced if retailers are rethat quired to pay the going minimum rate, most of the job opportunities now available for ... students will disappear. Retailers cannot be expected to pay the full legal minimum to part-tim- e inexperienced workers. But the type of work now done by these students, in most cases, will not be performed by adult workers. It will either be done by mechanization, changes to or full-tim- e self-servic- e, through other economies. In some cases it will not be done at all, with the resulting ioss of student jobs as well as service to the public. The law is supposed to provide exceptions in situations such as this. Unless it does, in actual practice, the increased unemployment that many feared would result from an expanded minimum wage law, will become a reality. Patriotism and Strength Two weeks ago in these columns we wrote about the lack of patriotism being taught in our schools, quoting an educator who declared our schools, in too many cases, emphasize the trivial and minimize the vi- tal. It was pointed out that military strength alone would not suffice if we are to survive. In the meantime it has more than ever become obvious that Khrusshev is on the offensive and operating from a clear blueprint, following a master stategy. There is not sufficient space here to go into all his aggressive tactics but the over-a- ll issue remains clear-ca world dominted by Communism, which has not changed one iota since the revolution over 40 years ago. The tried and tested theory is to chip at one weak spot after another. The aim is to downgrade and isolate the U.S, to tilt the balance of world power to the Communist side Mr. Khruschevs invitation to negotiate on Berlin, which now appears we may accept, really reads in effect, as pointed out by Columnist Roscoe Drummond, Lets be mutally agreeable to each other by giving it all to us. And only this week the Soviet has come up with a terror persuader, the largest bomb ever set off by man and in defiance to the world. So much for Khruschevs aims, for it would take books to discuss all the pros and cons. Of one thing, though, we can be certain, we are not doing the building-up job of selling ourselves to ourselves we should be if we are to be strong enough for survival. It is obvious weve made a dismal failure of outselling Communism to uncommitted nations and its obvious the western group of nations, of which we are the acknowl-ege- d leader, has left the taking of the initiative to Khruschev. To digress a little, could our failure to outsell Communism be because we preaching the merits of our own free Republic? Heres one minor example but still an example: A Post Office Department ruling as to wording on metered mail envelopes resulted in the following editorial in the Ontario, California, Daily Report, which said: We were only joshing . . . when we suggested that it would be forbidden to meter mail I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United with States of America and to the republic for which it stands . . . We were thinking of the trouble a textile mill operator, A. G. Heinsohn, Jr. had when he ordered a meter die containing the subversive slogan, Ours is a repub- Pitney-Boweproducers of mail metering mathemselves in hot water with the Post Office chines, got for Department furnishing Mr. Heinsohn with such a die. Mr. Heinsohn could ballyhoo his textiles with metered mail. But he couldnt stir up controversy. The word Republic was clearly controversial. All this led us to speculate, in a vein we thought frivolous, that the first score of words in the pledge to the flag might also be controversial. They contained that horrid term Republic. And so it was with disbelief that a day or two later we read in a weekly journal that 27, 1961 ut soft-ped- al ... WITH A FLAMELESS s, Electricitys pure flameless heat pampers the most delicate fabrics . . . protects colors and whites alike. Clothes come out sweet smelling and sunshine fresh . . . electrically. Clothes last longer, too . . . because you dry them as fast and clean as you wash them with no outside dirt or weather wear. Yes, like cooking electrically . . . fl.m.fof electricity is your better way to dry dothes! Save now on an electric dryer at your dealers. o UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. |