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Show QP THE SEARCHLIGHT Maw Leadership Perils (Continued to limt his from preceding imdependence page) in the legislative session. EXECUTIVE _ Perhaps Maw’s Utah’s one IRRESPONSIBILITY the most startling of Herbert B. mental gyrations is his proposal that sales tax and gasoline tax be boosted cent to enable the State to refuse Federal aid in Welfare and other work. He proposes to take another four millions a year from Utah tuxpayers so that he may run the State Welfare Department without a merit system, and without To Federal gratify would when restraints his lust for and counsel. unlimited power he levy additional taxes on Utahns at a time every true patriot should favor reducing State, County, and municipal taxation to lighten the task of war financing by the Federal treasury. After years of hypocritical solicitude for underprivileged citizens ers, Herbert B. and Maw for wage would now a 50 per cent increase in hardest, and is the most sales and salary burden work- them with the tax that hits them unfair tax of all—the <houldtolerate tax. And he would do that bility to Federal bureaus just to escape that—on the accounta- in his promises and professions. Herbert B. Maw’s impatience of necessary controls over any public official, and his dislike of counsel was demonstrated in his Ogden address of December 11th to the Women’s Legislative Council of Ogden, when he said: ‘“We should stand alone and say we will not aecept a cent from the Federal Government unless we ean should be administered.’’ decide The last ‘‘we’’? in that quotation bert B. But how means it ‘‘ Her- Maw.?’’ that Governor wants to isn’t all. If existing law limits Maw may do in any particular, do something else, he blandly what and he ignores the statutes and does as he pleases. Thus, in the face of an express statutory prohibition against nepotism, he gave his own cousin, Agnes Carolyn Williams, a job in his own department. In another instance he instructed the State Highway Patrol to ignore The Utah’s traffic laws. last two years have shown B. Maw from. its leader, and Herbert long ago passed that limit. whole—are capable and efficient. Union men and rank and file Democrats may new appreciate the lack of sincerity ernor Maw is equally impatient of State legislative and statutory limitations of his authoritv. He is exercising powers that are wholly unconstitutional. His arbitrary control of State departments and educational institutions already has caused serious dislocations and has lowered efficiency in administration. (Ask State officials and University teachers if vou doubt it.) He keeps departmental heads and key officials out on administrative limbs while he jumps from one immature conclusion to another, or ignores the matter in hand altogether. In all America there is no better illustration of the baleful effects of concentration of power in irresponsible hands than is atforded by the grant of powers to the executive by State reorganization—powers now exercised by Herbert B. Maw. Does the Democratic Party countenance all of that? Can the party continue to accept such Manifestly leadership and keep in power? there is some limit to what a political party that Gov- Space forbids a survey in greater detail of the leadership of Herbert B. Maw, and of that part of his administration which holds his ereatest interest and attention. Suffice it to say that hardly a week passes in which the Governor fails to break into print with some puerile utterance or some foolish proposal. The acclaim that gave his administration such an auspicious start in the early part of 1941 has given way to expressions of distrust, He has been weighed resentment, and scorn. in the balance and found wanting. Democratic the The time has come for Party to take official cognizance of the situation. The time has come to act. Delay will sienify a Democratic Party as incapable as its leader. The party cannot continue to follow a man who eannot lead. The Democratic Party must clean house now—beginning at the top. To waver now— to fail the people who believe in the party— is to court disaster and ignominious defeat in 1944. Herbert B. Maw must be deposed as leader of the party. |