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Show Big Celebration To Be Held July 22 One of the biggest celebrations in the history of Sugar House will be held Tuesday, July 22, 1947, when the state prison site will be dedicated as a state park by Gov. Herbert B. Maw. The great Sons of the Utah Pioneers will arrive on that day, and they will be officially greeted by the governor and L. D. s' President George Albert Smith. Aaron W. Tracy, chairman of the State Department of Publicity and Industrial 'Development, who has charge of the state park program, made the announcement announce-ment of the dedication date, pointing out, however, that work on the park would not start until the prison is removed. Simultaneously with Mr. Tracy's Tra-cy's announcement came word from President Ray Nilson of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce, that Horace A. Sor-ensen's Sor-ensen's publicity commit tee would act for the Chamber in making arrangements for the huge celebration, Mr. Sorensen is in California at present, and could not be reached for his comment on his committee's plans. Donald B. Alder of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers met With the Chamber board Monday, to present pre-sent the story of the SUP plana for the trek from Nauvoo to Salt Lake. I y i t 1 i : i - ' RAY E. NILSOX New Chamber president who writes this week's editorial "In My Opinion." "In My Opinion . . Following Monday's Chamber of Commerce board meeting, it was pointed out that the dedicatory dedica-tory ceremonies and the arrival of the SUP caravan of 72 "covered "cov-ered wagon" automobiles will be coordinated to make a history-making history-making tribute to the pioneering pioneer-ing of Salt Lake valley, Wendell J. Ashton, president of the Sons of Utah Pioneers and former president of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce, will be in charge of the trek on its 10-day 10-day journey across the plains. (Editor's note: The Bulletin takes a double pleasure In presenting this week's guest editor of the seventh "In My Opinion Opin-ion . . ." series of articles written, by southeasterners on the subjects they themselves choose. In the first place, this is Ray's initial appearance as staff member of the paper. In the second, this is the first time Ray Nilson has been introduced to the public pub-lic in the capacity of president of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce a job he just took over two weeks ago. Mr. Nilson has been an active worker in the Chamber ever since he came out to Sugar House to open up his business four years ago, having served as a board member and officer. He entered en-tered the furniture business twenty years ago and has been busily bus-ily engaged in all phases of the business ever since. Prior to his entering the furniture field he served as an LDS missionary in Germany for three years. Married and the father of four youngsters, young-sters, Mr. X'ilson speaks with the authority of a citizen who knows what he thinks and thinks enough of his citizenship to say it.) In my opinion one of the big problems facing our community com-munity and our country today is the task of keeping the citizenry citizen-ry converted to our capitalistic or free enterprise system. It would seem that from the economic record of our past fifty years, that no defense would be necessary, however we know that there are movements and isms in the country today that would like to overthrow our economic system, and that constant watch and alertness for these movements is essential to our maintenance of our system, and it's benefits to the people. America is the last bulwark in the world holding back the forces of Communism and totalitarism, and if we are to preserve pre-serve this bulwark it will require all the energies of all the people peo-ple to do so. "America Dream of the World" I know from personal experience and contacts made in Europe in years past, that the dream of millions there, is that they might some day erhmigrate to this country and partake of the privileges and benefits of our economic and political systems. No other nation at any time in history, has been able to give its people the physical and practical conveniences and luxuries lux-uries that have been enjoyed in America. Many systems o dictatorships dic-tatorships and communal living schemes . have been tried and all have fallen short of their goals. Even the co-operatives of the Scandinavian countries have finally taken away most of the privileges enjoyed by American citizens in their business life. I believe that our economic system was the main factor in giving America and her allies their victories in the last two stores to maintain a better service ser-vice to the public. I like the following lines which reveal the true importance of customers to a business. A customer is the most important person to enter the store. A customer is not dependent de-pendent on us -we are dependent depend-ent on him. A customer is not an interuption of our work he is the purpose of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving serv-ing him he is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A customer is not a cold statistic he is a flesh and blood human being Vith feelings and emotions like our own, and with biases and prejudices. A customer custom-er is not someone to match wits with. Nobody ever won an argument ar-gument with a customer. A customer cus-tomer is a person who brings us his wants. It is our job to handle them profitably to him and to ourselves. Our economic system I believe, be-lieve, is dependent on how we are thinking and what beliefs we hold to in our political thinking. If we believe in- concentrating con-centrating too much power in too few persons we ::re in danger. dan-ger. We have been told by s 'me that the government can go on indefinitely with delieite financing. financ-ing. If this be true why does not some communist nation issue is-sue a million dollar credit to Continued on Page Five great wars. Without the flow of supplies from America, Russia and England would have collapsed before the onslaught of our common enemy. Let us then guard this system with every care that it be preserved for our posterity to enjoy. "Prosperity is the Fruit of Labor." There are some people who feel that things should be divided di-vided up more evenly by law. Abraham Lincoln made a wise statement about the ownership of property when he said: "Property "Pro-perty is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive I good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is housless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently, and build one for himself, him-self, thus by example assuring that his own house be safe from ' violence when built." All large businesses were once small businesses. Small business makes up the great bulk of American enterprise and should be accorded every protection and respect the people and its lawmakers law-makers can render them. Position of Labor and Business Today I belive that labor 'needs to re-examine it's position, and conclude to do a-better job in the future than it is doing today in many instances. We all know that one of the reasons for the high cost of building homes today, to-day, is the inefficiency and laziness la-ziness of the workmen on the job. This is not true in all cases of course, but in far too many instances it is true. ! I believe that business should also re-examine it's position and conclude to give the public a better break in it's partnership partner-ship with them. I 'believe that as their positions will permit pay as high a scale of salaries for only through building up the public payroll can good times and prosperity continue. I am well aware that much of the discontent in labor's ranks in the past has been the result of abuse in their share of the profits pro-fits from the businesses they were helping to maintain. Who Is The Cusomer? A new conception of what a customer is would help some "OPINION" . . . Continued from Page 1 each of its citusns, and let them all enpoy wealth in n nation that cannot go broke? Bureaucrats Falsely Blamed The bureaucrat has been blamed for a lot of things in recent re-cent years. Hut h? in not vhm cause of many of these problems. prob-lems. He is the effect. The people peo-ple have oit:;iuall demanded 'more and mor-- from Washington Washing-ton instead rf trying to solve many of Us problems locallv. where it coiui better be done. It is not to get a lav; passed by . -g but n bureaucrat bur-eaucrat can tos off a directive while you wait. The indirect and hidden taxes collected by the federal government gov-ernment take a gre it pirt of the public's dJjur. Many ot these taxes ciu .1 be eliminated thru vigilance and planning, if the public wu'rl take mere interest inter-est in vvnat goes on poli: trally. "Without opposition from the citizens, the ttx burdens become be-come heavier and heavier, as our politicians dig into the pork barrel and continue to pass out patronage and extravagance. Government Best Exercised Locally Government is Tjest exercised in the local' community. There the problems die perceived with greater clarity because they are close to the people. The self reliance re-liance of individuals, town and state is destroyed as they are relieved of the necessity of governing gov-erning themselves, thru greater great-er centralization of power in Washington. Summing up, it is my opinion opin-ion that there is no stone that should be left unturned in order or-der to preserve and maintain our American economic and political philosophy. We are indeed in-deed the envy of the world. Let us cease our criticisms then and go to work, giving an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, and as merchants, an honest hon-est dollar's value for every dollar dol-lar we receive from the public. Only in this way can we continue contin-ue to enjoy the fruits of the greatest and most blessed land and country in all the world's history. |
