Show Lets Let's All Be Americans NOW Held over from last week for lack of space Three weeks ago most people of this fair state were being classified as Fair Dealers Republicans Jeffersonian Democrats Democrats for fOl Bennett just plain Democrats etc The same was true in much of the nation with the exception exception exception tion of the Bennett angle But now that election is over its it's time for all of us to get down to the very serious business of being good Am Am- It might be well however to take a parting look at some election results and wonder why things happened that way In the first place lets let's look at the results in the county The race for State Senator was the top feature with both contestants A. A I. I Tippetts Democrat and Reuel E. E Christensen Christensen Christensen Chris- Chris Republican being from Ephraim From the time they were nominated nearly everyone was predicting a close race and it turned out to be just that a very close race between two capable men Mr Tippetts won by a majority of 90 of this total being picked up in Ephraim and 12 in Manti so that he had only 27 more votes than Mr Christensen inthe inthe in inthe the rest of the county Several have said that Mr Tippetts Tippetts' column Going On Around Here which he sent weekly week week- 1 ly from Salt Lake City while serving in the state house of representatives in 1949 and which was published in the Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- raim Enterprise and Manti Messenger did much to make him popular with the voters in these communities All present county officers were re-elected re most of them by comfortable margins It must mean that the majority of voters regardless of party are satisfied with the service the present officers are giving One of the closest races was vas for county clerk There is I considerable dissatisfaction in Mt Pleasant and Ephraim that neither of these communities the second and third largest in the county has a county officer Fairview has a commissioner com com- commissioner com I missioner and the sheriff Moroni a commissioner and the assessor Spring City the treasurer Manti the recorder attorney attorney attorney at at- torney and justice of the peace Gunnison the clerk and a commissioner and Mayfield the surveyor For many years the position of clerk was generally to Ephraim Many voters this year seemed determined to bring the office back to an Ephraim man but that determination was not great I enough to overcome Mr Fjeldsted's popularity The big surprise on the national scene was the failure of organized labor to defeat their marked men or elect their favorites The most notable example of this was vas of course Senator Robert A. A Taft the man most maligned by the labor bosses who came through with nearly a half million vote majority showing that many many thousands of the rank and and file of labor voted for him And here in Utah a Labor favorite Senator Elbert D. D Thomas went down to defeat Wallace F. F Bennett winning vinning cut in the state with a sizeable majority At the same time Representative Walter K Granger was re-elected re for another term but he defeated Mayor Preston L. L Jones of Nephi b by only a small majority of slightly over 2000 votes One thing seems clear voters do not want organized labor taking part in politics and apparently that goes for a alot alot alot lot of the members of organized labor They seem to feel about Labor and politics sort of like they do about churches and politics It seems that when religion is brought into a campaign in an effort to help some candidate it usually has just the opposite effect And certainly the help of organized organized organized or or- lab labor r reacted in much the same way It is to be hoped that present-day present labor bosses will take the advice of that grand old leader of labor Samuel Gompers and leave politics alone in the future Much of the campaigning for national offices was done on a group against group b basis sis Some office seekers would one group while courting the favor of another while others would the other while courting the favor of the one There was altogether too much promising of favors favor's to groups like farmers organized labor vet veterans rans teachers t the e aged etc with too few promises to work for the welfare of the country as a whole and to endeavor to do away with unnatural but real class lines and antagonisms which have been built huilt up by the gi me philosophy of the past 18 years There was too foo little encouragement for people to stand standon on their own ability and through their own initiative planning and endeavor try to work out their own welfare and security There were too many politicians trying to transform us all into bums seeking a handout at the door of Uncle Sam An amusing incident of the last days of the campaign was the way President Truman in his one political speech bemoaned the fact that back in 1933 the corporations of America America America Am Am- erica found themselves taking in less than they had paid out outto outto to the tune of more than four billion dollars He seemed very concerned over such a condition yet h he did not say a wore word about the great corporation which he heads the Corporation Corporation Corporation Corpor Corpor- of the United States of America going in inthe the red to the tune of billions every year save one since Harry S S. S Truman took over as chairman of the board of directors On the whole that address was pretty cheap and certainly brought the dignity of the high office of President of the United States to a new low The defeat of Senator Tydings in Maryland goes to show that the voters there would not approve of even a good goodman goodman goodman man accepting the job of wielding the whitewash brush in inan inan inan an attempt to cover up the diplomatic mistakes of the present and former administrations especially as concerns far eastern affairs But now with the elections over it is time for all to get down to real work not in covering up past mistakes butin but butin butin in recognizing them and then doing all we can to overcome the evil which has stemmed from those mistakes including the war in Korea orea and the present v very ry dangerous relations with communist China The time for smearing whitewashing name-calling name and the inciting of class antagonism is gone Now is the time for all of us to stand up and be counted as Americans Americans Americans Americans Amer Amer- noble enough and big enough to take care of ourselves without federal handouts to be willing to admit past errors and to work doubly hard that our nation can overcome the evils of its mistakes and can be strong enough to meet any emergency which might arise to plague us as those emergencies cies dies are now doing o- o |