Show 9 t. t t LEGION WORTHY SUPPORT Anyone ai attending ending the American Amer Anler- American ican Legion convention held at ai Manti l anti recently could not help but be impressed with the fact that Manti anti has one of the strongest and best organized Legion Posts in southern Utah Reports were given b by br the various Posts of their Activities activities ties but as far as we are able to judge none of them was aqua to the report given by Commander Comman Comman- der del Miller l The local veterans' veterans iorg organization tion is community minded ever striving to help and to be of service We Ve are proud of them and and the work they are doing It was most gratifying to note the excellency of their work the unity and strength of their organization organization or or- g and the ideals for I which they stand Manti I is fortunate in having this wide awake patriotic patriotic patriotic pa pa- organization functioning as it does Its discontinuance would be a distinct loss to our I city May fay r it ever be with us us and may it continue to be of help heIr and service maintaining its pr present sent ent attitude toward standal stand stand- standards al ards ds and service TODAY TOMORROW TO By BJ Frank Parker Park Stockbridge INSURANCE for jobless The first experiment with compulsory unemployment in insurance insurance insurance in- in In the United went into effect on the first of July this year in Wis The Movement l for a Federal scheme of unemployment insurance insurance insurance ance is growing I dont don't think there is much question that we weare weare weare are heading toward so a social system system tem tern under which men who are I able abl and willing to work are thrown out of work vork through no fault of their own will vill r receive unemployment ber be efi fi s eith either from funds established by em- em or out of their own wages while they are earning or by state or Federal govern- govern j ment mente T The e English system which is isa isa isa a combination of all three looks to m mo the soundest Every i wage wage- earner to be entitled to unemployment p insurance must consent consent consent con con- sent to the of a small percentage of of his wag wages when he is working which goes goe into a fund t to which the em employers I loYers contribute an equal percentage and the government contributes contribute its share That provides the much-discussed much British dole which seems to have work worked pretty well wall through the hardtimes hardtimes hard hardtimes times which are now HOW au about ut over in England PENSIONS and politics I think there is little doubt I that we will soon have a al system of old-age old pensions I That scheme is working out pretty well in the states that have put it into effect Massa- Massa my own state every male voter ter pays 1 a year into hit 3 Y 4 the Old Age Assistance Fund That makes a fund large largo enough to support all the aged needy and poor houses have been The average old-age old pension in Massachusetts l is a little over 6 a week Those receiving it have to prove that they have haw no other means of support support- that they are unable to earn a living Jiving The trouble with any such scheme like many other desirable desirable desirable desir desir- able social reforms is that their administration has to be left to political appointees s Before we can go wholesale into Socialism Social Social- Socialism l- l ism we must first reform our entire political system of rewarding rewarding rewarding re re- re- re warding partisan efforts out of the public treasury i ELECTION punk system N Nobody who will vill stop to think it over will deny that we have carried the theory of democracy too far in making t- t tive office elective The man who gets the job is not the one with the b best st qualifications but the one who can make th the best promises to voters I ha have never been able to discover discover discover dis dis- cover that a Republican makes a b better county k than thaI T L u LL a aT at ur or that UaL l-UaL there nere is any Democratic tic way of running a system that is superior to Republican methods PLEASURE was sinful The prejudice prejudice against the theater which was emphasized by many of the church denomInations denominations denominations denom denom- in America and England England England Eng Eng- land for more than two hundred years was only partly du due to the i of the early r theater I The puri puritans regarded it as immoral immoral immoral im im- moral to indulge in any a amusement amusement amuse amuse- ment purely for pleasure As Macaulay wrote of England's prohibition public fights between bears and bulldogs in inthe the clue century Cromwell and his followers stopped it not because because be be- cause it gave pain to the bear but put because it gave pleasure to the spectators After the overthrow of the Puritan regime in England and the restoration of the Stuarts to the throne the reaction against this discipline ran wild and the stage in the days of Charles II and his brother J Jams Jam Jam- s II was so rawly indecent asto as asto to i to confirm the good Presbyterians Presbyter Presbyter- ians Congregationalists Baptists Baptists Bap Bap- and l I Methodists in th it beli belief f that was the room ante of Hell Something of the same sort of reaction against the movies is now beginning in religious circles with even the more liberal liber libel al denominations taking part in it This time it is not prejudice against pl pleasure as such but the commercial e exploitation loita- loita tion of false and subversive ideas to the young It should not be difficult for the movies to clean up once their promoters promoters pro pro- get rid of the idea that people wont won't pay to see clean shows |