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Show v WW viewpoint ivr kA CLIFF MEMMOTT, Edilor net Dis- WE INSIST ON KEEPING OUR Will Jjft STREETS LITTERED WITH TRASH 't several times since I became your editor this column I Commented about the occasional unsightliness of our 'n- ' 15 business streets. In each comment I have tried to on to' a thought or tw0 that' if accepted' could helP to solve rtah je problem. Last Saturday our police department came to me with reauest that I again go to bat on this same problem. . . 0l(i I -.Jems that one of our marshalls had an experience pre-nslv pre-nslv when he saw a certain woman-about-town who i lld know better, or who at least should have a bit of 3jde in her city, throw a large-sized handful of paper, etc. ' to the sidewalk rather than take about a half dozen steps "less to deposit the waste into one of the metal containers wvided last summer for that express purpose. Of course be woman's face was plenty scarlet when she was accosted jv said marshall and asked to scoop up her mess and put it' where it should have gone in the first place. This seems to be a good deal like the great problem je F.B.I, is today trying to solve Is it the child or his ient who should be judged delinquent? ... As I have served these past nearly nine months, I believe I would je safe to say there are businessmen who have never yet I Centime to sweep the sidewalk running in front or along- i side their place of business, to say nothing about the litter ' that stands until the wind moves it along, or the city comes around on one of their occasional "street-cleaning" tours. I can't help but believe that if the merchant would set the pattern be the example, his customers might catch on that Roosevelt's people would like to have a clean city. . . It couldn't be that people, whether they live in a community commun-ity or are just visiting, would deliberately throw trash on the streets of a city to "mess' it up. ' Our police department is ambitious about aiding' any project that will keep our streets clean, and if it becomes necessary to make an example of some one to achieve its goal, then that is what will be done so they say. As one businessman I am willing to see that my side-' side-' walk is swept daily something that has been done six ' Jays weekly since Jan. 1st. . . I'll also go a little farther II I and promise to keep the gutter and street cleaned up and it the debris emptied into a container near my office door . . . t If rob I'Uec operUjx of V-usinss place would do the -! j. saw thing, and then the 'city collect the accumulation a.. ! MV e.'tener, we would all notice a difference in the ap- jwraice of Roosevelt. t v E v ' TIADGEDY SHOULD SERVE TO WARN , TO CAUTION OUR CHILDREN . . . The death of little Ronald Giggey at Gusher last Satur-I Satur-I day, a few hours after he was struck by the automobile of a passing motorist, should serve-' to warn all parents to teach more safety to our children when crossing the streets, especially a busy highway like the one that passes through Duchesne county from one end to the other. The investigation revealed that the driver of the car which struck Ronald Giggey did all within his power to I avoid the accident . . But a confused and bewildered little boy who did not estimate the distance between him and the I approaching car, caused an accident that has torn the heart-I heart-I strings of a family, and no doubt will cause many hours of j anguish for the driver of the automobile. v E v COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE UN GIVE TOO MUCH POWER . . . Some of the proponents of National Compulsory Health insurance have pooh-poohed the idea that this grandoise eme would inevitably lead to socialized medicine. It do nothing of the sort, they argue it would just a it easier for people to meet their medical bills, taxing I ra m advance. 1 fo 3 great many Americans seem to think otherwise. I (J examPle, an extraordinarily large number of national I men?1231'0118 have gone on record against mixing govern- the a the Practice 01 the healing arts. These include American Bar Association, the American Legion, the mean Farm Bureau Federation, the Conference of Small rness Organizations, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the 10 Federation of Women's Clubs and, literally, about Z other groups. Hel-tl i is the cause of all tnis opposition tc Compulsory Ujn Insurance? Primarily, it is based on the fact that "Use n,0Sed law would control patients, physicians and 'oulrJ un government administrators and that it aj, control the money and determine how and in what' "tenta l! would 06 used. As anyone with even a rudi-are rudi-are knowledge 'of government knows, when bureaucrats itfin- en Vast powers, along with authority over the purse ngs, socialism isn't far off. . raedici 6Very nation which has tried government-controlled ) Bo"6' 5ertain results have followed. The quality of care eiucati116 wn' there has been a sharp decline in medical f the taxK-,a,nd research and the total cost, as measured in itwn,,u s- has soared. Can anyone honestly believe that wouid work differently here? v E v our hJs61 88 we are (r Ehould be) for our freedom and I I Well a S d of living, We Americans are spiritually MemhJnaterially concernec these trying days. 5fln(vw?llp in the churches of our country has grown D'uo.000 in 1936, to more than 82,000,000 today. v E v "'of61?' Waahington, a mother on relief was found 0tllef caun 8 while drunk. This wouldn't happen in any tnej here n earth' and we could not believe it hap-. hap-. except that we read it in a reliable newspaper. i "Pat ; v E v mrnunkt!11!1'8 this 1 hear about ye joining up with the "It'g fe ye daft- man?" tK,d me 1 ha? Uvh' Mike' 1 signed up last week. The doctor m cmmimi i ten davs to live and 'tid better one o' . umsts die than a good Irishman." 30 |