| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION government is on the road to bankruptcy Its expenses each day are seven million dollars more than its income Despite this headlong pace of outgo groups here and there are urging more appropriations for this and that demanding more activities on the part of city county state and federal government while delinquent tax sales mount and cities and states are unable to pay school teachers Let government do it has become the slogan of thoughtless indifferent Americans While business firms families and individuals are paring their budgets to the bone in order to make ends meet the cost of government continues to mount The anomaly of the situation is plain enough Money for the support of government comes directly or indirectly from the incomes of the people All the legislative sleight-of-hand all the political mumbo-jumbo in the world cannot get us around that solid and unyielding fact The powerful federal government cannot create one single thin dime to spenddime it must take it away from its citizens The sooner we deflate government the sooner normal living and working conditions for all of us will return Along with editorial responsibilities Orsa performed the more routine tasks ofweekly publisher Notebook in hand she gathered news while traveling Salinastreets all the while contemporaries recall spreading good cheer with her upbeat attitude and ever-present smile She poundedtypewriter with skill often not pausing long enough to remove her hat when she returned to the office Inday when feminine attire was incomplete without millinery her hats were both pert and stylish Howard Cherry Jr known to all as Wes grew up in newspapers but served in the Navy and worked on the West Coast before joining the family enterprise in 1939 He was thus on the scene when his father died suddenly in 1941 leaving the operation of both publications to Orsa She and her son provedcapable team When the bombing of Pearl Harbor triggered American involvement in World War Two Orsaeditorial put in words what her neighbors were thinking The unprovoked attack of 456 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
