Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-09-14 | Page 4 | Workmen's Compensation in Utah

OU- WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION IN UTAH. At the next session of the legislature, legisla-ture, the commission on workmen's compensation is to make a report. The members of tho commission are Judge Lo Grande Young, H. B. Windsor, H. K. Russell, of Salt Lake; Charles II. Pearson, Ogdon; Don B. Colton, Vernal, and Ira R. Browning, Gastledale. The commission Is empowered to Investigate workmen's compensation laws and draft a tentative compensation compen-sation measure to he presented to the next legislature. Thi3 is a most Important service. Today there Is no legislation on that subject on the statutes of Utah. Montana Mon-tana has a measure which, though at first It aroused much opposition, Is today generally accepted as an excellent excel-lent requirement. Evontually this country will have an old-age pension system, a workmen's work-men's compensation law and a mother's moth-er's pension. An entire community is more or less affected by each individual act. There cannot be poverty, or vice or dissipation without all ele ! Ing In tho effects of that poverty, I vice and dissipation That is what is known as environment. The better bet-ter the environment, the higher the morals, the greater the welfare of the community. So after all, wo find a selfish motive which should cause everyone to try to eliminate objectionable objec-tionable features from their home surroundings. sur-roundings. One way to accomplish that end Is to make by law extreme poverty impossible; to force men in their younger days t0 provide means for tho time when their Infirmities will be upon them. This can be done through the state or nation drawing from the product of toll a tithe, to be reserved for the aged and infirm.