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Show PAGE TWO SUGAR HOUSE.UTAH THURSDAY JULY 23 1959 INDEPENDENT iii Public Entitled To More Facts On The Proposed Belt Route One week. ago the Utah Assn. of Real Estate Boards announced that they were urging the road commission to take "positive" action regarding tne "belt route in Salt Lake Valley. .They further imply that certain groups and individuals are impeding and objecting to the belt route for personal interests. For what other reasons would a citizen object to the route for but personal ones when there is a possibility that such a belt route would go next to the home? Is there something wrong with a per-sonal reason that hesitates to accept something that hasn't been fully explained to tne public? The realtors tnemselves emphasize the great value of a home so what could be wrong for having a personal interest in what might happento.it and its value should the belt route be built next to it? There have been maps, without much detail shown to the public. There has. been much said and discussed regarding the belt route. There has been many statements as to the importance oi tne Delt route. BUT has anyone, official or otherwise, really described what a belt route really is? How many lanes will it have? What residential areas will it actually go through not just a general statement? What present existing parks will it go through and ruin? Will both sides of the route be fenced so that in order to visit a neighbor across the street it will involve a 16 block drive in the car? Does it have any other value than to hurry people through Salt Lake City and if that is the. utilitv of it then what good will it do the merchants or residents of this city? This paper is not for or against the belt route hut is is against the method in which it has been presented to the public. Inspite of public meets, etc. there is needed more detailed news regarding this pro-gram before the, citizens of Salt Lake City and vicinity should accept it. South East Independent The South East Independent Is entered as Second Class Matter March 1. 1946, In Salt Lake City Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. It is published each Thurs-Ja- y morning. TOM NOTESTINE Owner and Publisher HU 5-8- 261 EMERSON S. SMITH Managing Editor DA 2-1- 831 Subscription rates are $3 XX) per year or ten cents for the single copy. Send all mall to box 136, Sugar House Station, zone 6. Our Voices In Washington Senator Wallace F. Bennett, as a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, has an encour-aging word on fallout. Less than 5Pjo as much as the average exposure to cosmic rays and other natural radiation exists from weapon try-ou- t. Also, less than 5Po of the estimated average radiation exposure to X-ra- ys for medical purposes is a result of testing. As for the internal effects of strontium-9- 0, the Atomic Commit-tee found that the amount of stronti-um- 90 which has been found in food 'and water is less of a haz-ard than the amount of radium normally present in public drink- - ing supply in parts of the U. S., In use for many years. Some recent press releases have caused quite a bit of alarm among the public and this seems quite reassuring at this time. The setting-u-p of a test in Nevada while awaiting international de-cision on further probing, has alarmed many a citizen needless-ly, it would seem. Senator Moss in a speech be-fore the Senate gave his support to an amendment to the Mutual Security Act to "end blank check spending for foreign aid." "We cannot escape the fact that a pro-gram ..under Truman... to rehab-ilitate industries in war-tor- n Europe, Is still being applied with-out much adaptation and change to 'under-develop- ed countries whose political, commercial or other in-stitutions are very different from those of Western Europe." Senator Moss reports that the bill to establish a Youth Conser-vation Corps which he is receiving favorable attention from the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. He has also introduced a bill to make it easier for author-ities to find fathers who have fled from one state to another to avoid contributing to the support of their children. A bill to study labor relations by means of a an commission has been proposed in Congress by Representative David King. It would be on the same lines as the Hoover Commission. The only place to pass on curves is in. a beauty contest. The army which had threat-ened the very existence of the new found colony of the Saints was meekly marking time at Camp Floyd. The plot to arrest Brigham Young had fallen through. The excitement of the 1860 elections had not appeared. There was smoldering resent-ment, however, toward the reign of the federal judges. To combat them a group of Salt Lake lawyers came out with the "Mountaineer." Its columns took a brave and vigorous stand against the judges. The interesting and inspiring thing about this early paper was its motto "Do What is Right, Let the Consequence Follow." What a vision of the past this motto conjures upl It reveals the very warp and woof of civilization's fabric for these umcompomising hardy pioneers. Their all had been laid on the altar. Some had sacrificed as many as four homes in various parts of the country before they reached this haven. Some didn't make it but had their bodies riddled' by bullets, then mangled by corn-choppe- rs, and their remains gathered up and thrown into wells which fiends then used as privies. History, ashamed of these dreadful depradations, has hidden them away where only the seeker may ferret them out. Future historians, however, will point to the city built on a hill. They will add even more polish to the luster of our living present. However, we must not forget, it is all based on those who dared to "Do What is Right, and Let the Consequence Follow." THE INDEPENDENT INVITES COMMENTS FROM ITS READERS r -- , t - - - ; - & I ; N ; 1 ? i- - ' x , . s ft, ' s , ;U ? W rt ' j t - . " ' - h VACATION? Phone ahead Q for reservations Rates are lowest after 6 p.m. and all day Sunday always lower when you call station-to-statio- n. Mountain States Telephone Classified HELP WANTED Piecework at home. House-wives, if you can devote IS hours' a week working in your home." Established Distributor. 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The people generally were enjoying them- - selves as much as was possible while pioneering a coun-try intensely hot and dry in summer, cold and stormy in the winter, severe and capricious at all times. Though I L "J 12 years had passed . by since they arrived in the valley wood was still scarce, and poor, irrigation was laborious and ex-pensive and crickets and grass-hoppers swarmed in myriads. . State Of The Union Following is a kind of report of the state of the union which some politicians and wasters of public money would prefer the people didn't see. It is a report made by Ed-win Vennard, managing director of the Edison Electric Institute, to the Rotary Club of New York City and to all fellow citizens interested in preservation of freedom under self-governm- Federal government non-defen- se spending per family has increased from $86 in 1930 to $548 in 1959, or more than 50Q Federal non-defe- nse spending has increased from $2.6 billion in 1930 to $28.1 billion in 1959, or about 1000$. Exclusive of the armed services, the Federal government now emp-loyes 2.1 million people as compared to 644,000 in 1930, and Increase of over 2007o. In May, 1959, Senator Harry F. byrd said: "Nearly 40 miDion Am-ericans will receive direct payments from the Federal Treasury this yearP In December. 1954, Rowland R. Hughes, then Director of the Bureau of the Budhet, sald:"(The Federal Government) is, among other things, the largest electric power producer more government hand --outs today. Mr. - Vennard says: "If thise trends continue, what will our chil-dren face 30 years from now? Isn't it about time that we take ser-ious look at this situation and do something about it? And by we, I mean you and I not someone else." in the country, the largest insurer, the largest lender and the largest borrower, the largest landlord and the largest tenant, the largest holder of grazing land and the largest holder of timberland, the largest warehouse operator, the largest ship-own- er, and the largest truck-fle- et operator. For a country which is th citadel and the world's prin-cipal exponent of private enterprise and individual initiative, this is rat-her an amazing list." All taxes in 1930 took 130 of the national product, as compared to 29 in 1958. The National debt has grown from $540 per family in 1930, to $5500 per family in 1959, an increase of more than 900 And in this year of great prosperity, we are not requiring that our government live within its income from Federal taxes. We "are about to go further into debt, meaning we will borrow from future generations and may devalue the dollar in order to get Man who tries to do some-thing and fails is a lot better off than the man who tries nothing: and succeeds. Anonymous The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweet-ness of cheap price is forgotten. ' Anonymous |