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Show Sense andtasense Hrs SASent of thfw. a T. U., asserts Pliant Pl-iant tone that in older to m this country really dry, sne hinking soberly of givu s another an-other exhibition of .the Came JN Hon type of leadership. She may try. but she won't carry the na qon bv imitating Came Nation You can't legislate goodness tato men's hearts. Nor more can you, convince them by using foice. You can lead a man away fiom wit bar but it seems like you can t keep him from drinking. Education is hotter than legislation. Fifty Years From Now "Fiftv years from now" President Presi-dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be ensconced upon a pedestal pedes-tal amidst, other sacred American idols, else will have been relegated into the dim and forgotten past He is today giving this country one cf the finest exhibitions of executive leadership ever witnessed in the world's history. Like Andrew An-drew Jackson a hundred years ago, he is proving himself in truth the "people's president." We prefer to term his action as prompt, energetic, ener-getic, courageous and democratic. Be is trying to take America away Irom the selfish-minded and peanut pea-nut -souled financial potentates, so he can give it back to the people. Unless the monetary magnate gets his shoulders pinned to the mat through an upset of one sort or another, it is likely that he will go down in history along with a few other presidents. As he himself says, "We don't expect to make a hit every time we go to bat." or words to that effect. But so far, Roosevelt has shown a tremendous high batting average. Leastwise, that's the way it looks now. However, How-ever, it takes time to see how every experiment finally works out, pnd he is doing quite a good deal of experimenting. All, so far as we can see, for the good of the masses rather than the profit of the classes. A Momentous Week This week will be written down as one of the most momentous in all the annals of Utah's history, from a legislative standpoint. Convening. Con-vening. Monday in special session, the state legislature confronted two of the most pressing problems prob-lems it has ever had to face. First and most important was the problem prob-lem of taking the necessary steps to work efficiently with the federal government in effecting economic rehabilitation. Man does not live by bread alone, but unless he has bread, or its equivalent, he cannot continue to live at all. The world does not owe every man a living, but it does owe every man a chance to make a living. That is the theory underlying the tremendous tre-mendous expenditures of money and effort being put forth at this time to restore economic salubrity throughout the nation. Recognizing this, the state legislature had to eliminate certain technicalities which stood in the way of complete cooperation with President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's gigantic federal works program. pro-gram. The second major problem which the legislature had to face, was that of. prohibition. A growing clamor is resounding throughout the state for resubmission. Those favoring the stand that the matter mat-ter of prohibition should be put to a direct vote of the people, do so upon the grounds that this is a democracy, and the voice of the people should b; heeded in all things. The minority may be wiser, it mav advise us to do something which would be for our benefit, but this will cease to be a democracy de-mocracy when the majority gives way to the minority: Therefore the resubmissionists urged the legislature to put aside the statute of 1917 and the state prohibition law which came later, and asked further that the whole matter of -'utarerK let? 'l ther to call ourselves free-think-citi'enCs ofa democratic com-monwealth? com-monwealth? Can We Foot The Bill? a number of Utah state legis-nu"l legis-nu"l reluctant about endors-,al0rSthe endors-,al0rSthe fedeial ' public works pro-ing pro-ing because if we borrow money irwiulome day have to pay it ' k If for instance, we get S14000000 of the government about 000,000 will be m the ? rm of a direct grant,, and we Vowing ; cal subdivisions default, when tn. fme comes to make repaymeiitof their apportionment, the stat nv be asked to make some or a "of the defalcation good. And we are already heavily burdened with taxes. There is something to think about there. Howover, it seems to us that a nniitical division or subdivision, like U individual, can pay back a big bill easier when there is money in circulation, than a small one when all the money is tied up, or nearly c0 One solitary silver cartwheel roiling about freely can work miracles mir-acles in getting bills paid off The public works program should enable en-able the people as a whole to far better meet the burdens of life, taxation included. And if Uncle Sam could afford to borrow tventy billions to prosecute a war for destructive purposes, as he did in the World war, we are unable to convince ourselves that he is making a wild plunge when he borrows less than four billions for constructive purposes, to give the people a taste of life not death. A Speedy Recovery "The present recovery in business," busi-ness," siys Leslie Gould of the International In-ternational News Service, "has no parallel in American economic his-tr-ry. Business is now 10 per cent, below normal, against 40 per cent below four months ago. "That is, business has about .iiiMnm!iniii inn iturwwa doubled since the low of th ing holiday, and it repre, batlk-per batlk-per cent recovery 0f thJ , 6o lost since 1929. Broi "There have been rapid , ies in the past, but nor,. 0Vet-equalled 0Vet-equalled this present on hat per cent in four months the past depressions, howPvl0ne carried to the extremes one. . or this "Lows of 10 to 15 per the rule of the past sluml ''e'e this one carried trade 40 V below normal." Kt ten; In other words, we took tremely long slide and ent m fully hard jolt at the L?" aw' the chute, but now the S , ci working and we're climhir , l again almost as we fell Tf u? dubious ones who see no tllf recovery ponder, for a mJl16ns t the above figures. 1U0I"ent Certain sections which hav. i hit are slow to sense the rl, ea but ere long the benefits wS' being felt most everywhere nT diffused to neighboring J,,! It is likely that inside of &Z Sanpete County along with country in general, wlU have a new lease on life. Ktn |