Show BENNETT TELLS REPUBLICAN PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION The Republican party has in inherited inherited inherited in- in a period of reconstruction tion not unlike that denied Abraham Lincoln by his death Senator Wallace F F. F Bennett told Sanpete Republicans Monday night The Utah Republican spoke at the annual Lincoln Day Banquet sponsored by Sanpete Republicans and held in th the Manti ManU North Ward Vard chapel That the people in the last election entrusted the task of reconstruction to the the Republicans cans is a great tribute and a great responsibility Senator Bennett told the Lincoln Day audience The lawmaker in his only Lincoln Week speech in Utah outlined five things that need eed reconstruction in America Must l Reconstruct r Peace of World We IVe must reconstruct the peace of the world he pointed out not after the threat of war has past but while war burns in Asia and threatens everywhere ev ev- ev Because there was as no Lincoln Lincoln Lincon Lin Lin- coln con in the years after the w war r between the states he added mistrust has divided our o own n nation ever since We Ve face fac the task of trying to bridge those national rivalries as well as th the mistrusts that have divided Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope for a As a second issue Senator Bennett said that America must reconstruct its economy Twenty years of mismanage mismanagement ment and spendthrift extravagance extravagance extravagance gance have left us with a burden burden burden bur bur- den of debt a complicated strait straitjacket straitjacket straitjacket of dollar dollar dollar dol dol- jacket taxes a depleted lar and a bad case of narcotic inflation he noted This we Republicans have to heal and from it build new fiscal and financial strength Hits Bureaucracy Pointing to the overgrown jungle of bureaucracy the Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator said We Ve must reconstruct our federal government itself It has become a haven of red tape for idlers a frustration frustration frustration tion for the honest civil servant servant servant ser ser- vant an nn easy mark for the subversive subversive sub sub- and the spy His fourth point was that the federal state has threatened to become the master rather than the servant thus upsetting our traditional concept of citizen citizen- ship Encouraged by power-hungry power politicians too many of us Continued on page 3 5 BENNETT OUTLINES REPUBLICAN REPUBLICAN REPUBLICAN LICAN PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION Continued from Page One have become dependents rather than free men he stated Hoping Hoping Hoping Hop ing to avoid the responsibilities of citizenship we have taken the bait of unearned privilege Spiritual Regeneration Needed Needed- Senator Bennett said that perhaps perhaps per per- haps hips his first four ideas could be summarized within the fifth that of our greatest reconstruction reconstruction recon recon- task of spiritual re regeneration re- re generation Life moves in tides and c cy cycles cycles cy- cy cles and this is the time to heal ourselves and build America This is no new problem everyman every everyman man faces it all his life he said Senator Bennett recalled that he had opened his 1950 Senatorial Senator Senator- ial campaign in Sanpete County To Speak in Midwest A |