OCR Text |
Show SEARCHLIGHT | 3 THE It’s Automatic, Dave! Dave Robinson, Rube Clark’s most contemptible propagandist, patted himself on the back a week ago in a Deseret News editorial with the smug comment: “It’s nice to have someone agree with you’. Dave receives such a volume of crit- icism for his daily support of Clarkism that it must be a relief to receive a bouquet once in a while instead of a brickbat. Dave would have us believe that his day-by- day fight on the President’s subsidy program received important backing, and infallible vindi cation, when Ezra T. Benson repeated his shopworn generalities condemning subsidies. The Benson re-hash was made during his visit in Salt Lake last week, where political instructions The he came to receive new from Rube Clark. low-down—and it is low-down—is that whenever Ezra T. Benson, Clyde C. Eggmonds, Albert E. Bowen, Tracy R. Welling, Dave Rob- Economic Safety~ (Continued from preceding page) dent in prior years—that employment and unemployment are no respecters of State lines.” And ‘‘a unified national system of social insurance’, of which would nearly ployed unemployment insurance would be a part, be “a program far safer, stronger, and more adequate from the standpoint of unemworkers and the Nation.’ Act Now Urging the appropriateness of action now, the Board points out that “with employment and earnings at record levels, millions of workers can and want to contribute toward making better provision against sickness, disability, unemployment, and old age. For many older workers, such an opportunity may not come again.” Furthermore, says the Board, “by creating a reservoir of future purchasing power, to be drawn upon where and when it is needed, the extension of social insur- ance to additional tional risks would tion’s resources for adjustments of the time, increases groups of workers and addiadd substantially to the Naweathering the inevitable repost-war years. At the same in insurance contributions would lessen current inflationary pressures.” —Contributed. inson, Orval W. Adams, and other disciples of Clarkism, take a stand on a political or economic issue, they merely echo their master’s voice. Clark’s control of those worthies is just as absolute as it is over KSL, where his son-in-law, Ivor Sharp, presides—presides under the ever-present admonition that: “Papa is always right”. Thus, when Clyde Eggmonds condemned the administration’s subsidy program on his return from a meeting of the National Council of ‘‘Farmer’’ Cooperatives in Washington, and Benson went through similar motions, it was only Rube Clark using the vocal cords (maybe chords is better) of his two yes-men. And when the Deseret Evening News rigs its editorial and news policy to support the same attack on subsidies, it is only Rube Clark using Dave Robinson’s typewriter to prepare copy for the typesetter. The process is entirely automatic. Rube outlines his desires. His chore-boys hast- en to obey his instructions. So the similarity of their views is not at all surprising. Incidentally, the resignation of Ezra T. Benson from the National Council of “Farmer’’ Cooperatives doesn’t mean that Rube has loosened his wolfish grip on that organization. The Clark influence—the Hoover phase of American politics gone to seed—will continue to dominate the political moves of the so-called “Farmer” Coun cil of Coops. The situation hasn’t been im- proved at all. Clyde C. Eggmonds, the new vice-president of the Council, is an even more willing catspaw of Rube Clark. Clyde is a smoother article than Benson, and infinitely more daring. Not only will he carry out Rube’s orders just as efficiently, but he will supply a lot of imagination on his own account. Accordingly, he is much more dangerous than the plodding Ezra. Moreover, Clyde is decidedly less scrupulous than Ezra. He will resort to tactics and methods from which Benson might shrink. Clyde's presence on the “Farmer” Council of Co-ops will add emphasis to the already anti-labor tendencies of that group. He can be counted on to deliver unwary farmers into the hands of Republican reactionaries and their Democrat counterparts. |