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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor WHAT 1954 HAS IN STORE FOR FARMERS. BUSINESSES. MANUFACTURERS IS BIG QUESTION. According to Nation's Business, 1954 'is THE TEST YEAR For Business. 1954 will show strong if U S. economy can stay on high plateau, steer clear of peaks and valleys. Here is the view of Dr. John D. Clark, former vice-chairman vice-chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "Consolidation of forces" is new key to business climate harder selling, cost-cutting, better quality, new markets to cement firm base- for future. He discounts boom-bust trend talk, says we'll have fewer firms started. But fewer failures, too. Here's what he lists as husky underpinnings for overall over-all economy:' Full-employment policy; ever growing population; continued con-tinued profit opportunities; added markets, products. GREATER FAITH NEEDED As we who make up the small communities in this -part of the great United States complete cur labors and projects for 1953 and embark on the New Year of '54, we should do it with the same kind of faith that those who made the West had as they smilingly overcame the almost unsurmountable obstacles that kept looming up in their paths. . . We all recognize that the economy of the Uintah Basin has taken a nose-dive, and business prospects for the early part of .1954 are not good. Yet, we must bear in mind that we must press on and work out our problems as best we can. New Year's Eve will find most of us celebrating the departure of the Old Year and will joyously welcome the young and unexperienced New Year with hope and faith. . . We can build ouselves up with a faith that could carry us a long way into the year ahead, but it will take the combined com-bined efforts of ourselves and the help and guidance of Almighty God, who will give us aid if sought in faith and if we will conduct our lives to be in tune with Him. . It is the humble hope and prayer of your editor and his entire staff that the New Year will bring pleasant and spiritual experiences far beyond your fondest dream or hope and that you and yours will make great strides along the road to eternal life and exaltation. v E v CASUALLY OBSERVING RECENT EVENTS AND ACTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE. ... As I view the activities and accomplishments of the recent special session of the Utah State Legislature, I received re-ceived a boost in my faith in a government of the people, for the people and by the people It proved that one man can not sit in a high government seat and dictate the laws that should govern a soverign people, unless his ideas are based on facts that will serve the masses, rather than a few. . . I congratulate those fearless men and women that represented the majority of the people who "elected them and did not rubber stamp every recommendation the governor gov-ernor of our state would have inflicted on its people. The people of Utah should not close the book on the past sessions of the legislature, but should remember the voting records of those legislators who represented them when it comes time to select a new slate of men and women to again represent them on Capitol Hill We should ask this one question Did my state legislator and senator represent rep-resent all the people of my district, or did he go along with the dictates of the governor? I, along with my many friends in Carbon County, was shocked and stunned when the Governor , and the Legislature Legisla-ture voted to discontinue Carbon College at the end of the present school year. I believe, as many have expressed themselves, that the hurried enactment of a law that will end the college was done without a fair and impartial study of the facts. . I am also convinced that the governor initiated in-itiated his pian on motives that originated by personal prejudice rather than on a desire to further impose his so-called economy program on the state. . . I hope the people of that area will be successful in bringing their case before the people on a referendum vote. . 30 |