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Show l This, That And The Other BY LES DAVIDSON According to figures just released releas-ed by the government, Utah is second only to Wyoming in having the lowest per cent of rejections in drafted men, Colorado is next and then comes Connecticut. We are glad to learn that the sportsman of Utah, and Wyoming are joining hands in the effort to defeat the McCarran bill No. 1152, relating to a national hur-ieau hur-ieau located in Washington to have complete control of the wild life of tne west. Leave conservation conser-vation tactice to those living m the west, who know what to do, when to do it, and not vest state rights in a bureau of dudes who live in the east and wouldn't know whether to go hunting in the spring or in the fall. By all means, kill this nefarious measure. meas-ure. "Manpower commissioner" Paul V.. McNutt, wants to draft men and women for labor. He just wants to build up bureauracy to such an extent that the bureaus !of Washington will make the T7n-. T7n-. ited States where men and women wo-men are supposed to be free as totalatarian government as ever existed under Hitler. There are over three million supposed to be employed in the offices at Washington. Wash-ington. We suggest that before he and General Hershey draft labor that they go through the government offices with a fine-toothed fine-toothed comb, eliminate about two-thirds of those on the government govern-ment payroll, and get those lounge-lizards initiated into hard labor before drafting patriotic men and women who are doing their best to win this war not interested in 4 building up a political poli-tical machine to continue political polit-ical policies. Can a bureau in Washington abrogate state laws? Is a law passed by a state legislature of no account? Can the fact that this country is at war give an autocratic bureau the right to invalidate state's rigll'l'?? Tb,Ss matter is going to be thrashed out in Idaho in the courts, there is a state ruling that an article sold at an auction sale shall go to the highest bidder. A used tractor trac-tor was sold, a farmer bid somewhat some-what over $1000 for it, the OPA stepped in and said that their ; top ceiling price for a used trac-tor trac-tor was under that bid. therefore I the sale was illegal. Had the trac-j trac-j tor been sold the farmer by a dealer, then the OPA ruling would have stood, but the tractor was sold at an auction and the bidder wanted it bad enough to bid the higher price for it. therefore the OPA had no grounds for its complaint. com-plaint. The state law governs this sale, bureaus or no bureaus. If this bureau can under the specious ruling that this nation is at war set a side the right of the state, then in times of peace there will be added incentive to abrogate states rights, say what shall or shall not be paid for needed need-ed machinery, break down the legal le-gal status of the state legislature, 'rule the country from bureaus at Washington members of which are not cognizant of conditions in the various states do away with the freedom that our soldiers sold-iers are giving their lives for, nullify nul-lify the acts of the state legislatures legisla-tures and rule everything from a bureau in Washington. |